Frontiers in Development’s Friday lunch session was opened by Secretary Greening, who emphasized the importance of fostering a strong private sector as the key to economic growth and ending extreme poverty. Secretary Greening also participated in the panel targeting the needs of women and girls to end extreme poverty. They discussed why gender inequality makes females more vulnerable to poverty than males. In order to end extreme poverty, she stressed the importance of reaching poor women and developing interventions that tackle their unique vulnerabilities and constraints.

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Ultimately, it’s jobs, it’s growth, enterprise, that will defeat poverty for good. And I think it’s fair to say that whilst the development community in many respects has supported economic development for some time, we’ve got to do more.

The bottom line is that no country can sustainably develop if it leaves half the population behind.

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Biography

Justine Greening, UK Secretary of State for International Development

Justine Greening was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 4 September 2012. She is the Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton, and Southfields. Justine was Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2010 to October 2011, and Secretary of State for Transport from October 2011 to September 2012.