The connection between women’s economic participation and prosperity is undeniable. CFR Fellows Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and Rachel Vogelstein recently released a new Women and Foreign Policy Program report on this topic entitled, Building Inclusive Economies: How Women’s Economic Advancement Promotes Sustainable Growth. To discuss the growth potential presented by women’s economic advancement, they were joined by Laura Tyson, director of the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the University of California Berkley’s Haas School of Business. Tyson highlighted new data on... READ MORE HERE

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FREEPORT IN PERU: TWENTY YEARS AND GOING STRONG

Harry M. (Red) Conger, President and Chief Operating Officer, Freeport-McMoRan Americas and Africa Mining 

Key Points:

• ·         Mr. Conger presented information about Freeport-McMoRan’s products and global reach, focusing on the copper and molybdenum mine in Cerro Verde, Peru.
• ·         Mr. Conger explained that establishing a successful business abroad requires community development.
• ·         Freeport-McMoRan invested time and resources in Cerro Verde to build strong relationships with the local leadership, government, and community.
• ·         Freeport-McMoRan built trust between the company and locals by investing in the region, public services, entrepreneurs, schools, etc.
• ·          By having a strong relationship with the community, Freeport-McMoRan minimized protests from various local groups, which has allowed the company to operate efficiently.
• ·         Freeport-McMoRan approaches the community as a guest by respecting business and cultural differences, and building towards its goals with the motto “Pride Unites Us.”
• ·         A community development business approach has allowed Freeport-McMoRan to become a welcome and appreciated business in Cero Verde, and has led to additional collaborative and profitable projects.  

MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Tuesday that the dialogue he will undertake with the U.S. administration of Donald Trump will be marked by an “enormous pragmatism,” the defense of the country’s sovereignty and the protection of its citizens.

The dialogue will be encouraged by the “optimism that words and reason are, without a doubt, the best medium for coexistence between people and nations” and by an “enormous pragmatism for agreeing on what is useful and appropriate for Mexico and for all of North America,” he said.

In addition, it will be based “always on the defense of basic principles that are not negotiable, such as our sovereignty, the national interest and the protection of our countrymen,” the Mexican leader said.

In attending the 14th edition of the Business Summit in the central state of Puebla, Peña Nieto acknowledged that the new chapter opening with the United States “is generating an ongoing uncertainty.”

However, the Mexican government will continue pursuing dialogue, which is “the way to find agreement,” the president said, insisting on the importance of transforming this challenge into an opportunity based on an “enormous confidence in ourselves” and “national unity.”

During the election campaign, Trump not only verbally attacked Mexican immigrants, calling them “rapists” and “criminals,” but also promised to deport undocumented migrants and build a wall along the 3,200 kilometers (about 2,000 miles) of the U.S.-Mexico border.

He also threatened to confiscate remittances, renegotiate or abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement and refuse to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Trump said that perhaps “fences” could be erected along certain border stretches instead of an actual “wall,” but he guaranteed that he would deport almost three million immigrants with “criminal records.”

In his remarks on Tuesday, Peña Nieto said that the country’s future depends on Mexicans themselves emphasizing the reasons to be “profoundly optimistic,” ranging from the “country’s excellent geographical location” and the talent of its youth to the structural reforms undertaken under his administration.

He also reviewed the good news of the past month, including the approval of the 2017 budget package that includes an important adjustment in public spending, the new business plan for Mexico’s Pemex oil company, the evaluation of some 11,000 teachers on the weekend and the start of construction on a new Toyota plant.

The full documentary will be aired on PBS World Channel  (8.3HD, Cox88, Century Link Prism Ch20) on the following dates:

 

• September 28th at 9pm

• September 29th at 10am

• September 29th at 4pm

• October 1st at 5am

• October 4th at 5am

• October 4th at 11am

 

Please check your local listings for exact air times.

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