Mr.Zuma said the global economic crisis highlighted the need to reform the international financial system and multilateral lending groups like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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The Paper calls for the creation of a new multilateral fund to back national reconstruction.

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However, women run only 17-27% of businesses in Latin America, according to The Multilateral Investment Fund.

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The 14 winners selected from that pool will now share more than a half a billion dollars from the United States, Canada, the Republic of Korea, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Multilateral Investment Fund.

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