Together, Korea’s Women and Economy Can Soar
齐心协力，韩国女性和经济可以比翼齐飞
– Keynote Speech to Korean Network of Women in Finance
——在韩国金融界女性网的主旨演讲
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
国际货币基金组织总裁 克里斯蒂娜·拉加德
September 5, 2017
2017年9月6日
Prime Minister, Ministers, distinguished guests – Anyoung haseyo. It is my honor to address the International Conference on Women’s Empowerment in Financial Services.
总理先生，部长们，各位嘉宾，Anyoung haseyo。能够在金融服务的女性赋权国际大会上讲话，我深感荣幸。
Thank you – Sang-Kyung Kim and the Korean Network of Women in Finance – for your warm welcome. Your goal to promote gender diversity in the financial sector is critical.
我感谢Sang-Kyung Kim 和韩国金融界女性网的热烈欢迎。你们在金融业促进性别多样化的目标至关重要。
Indeed, empowering women is not just the right moral choice; it is also the right macroeconomic choice. That is why many of us care – including the IMF. Helping women participate in the economy boosts growth, diversifies economies, reduces income inequality, and mitigates demographic change.
实际上，赋予女性权能不仅是道义上的正确选择，也是宏观经济上的正确选择。正因如此，才有包括基金组织在内的许多人关心这项工作。通过帮助女性参与经济，将促进经济增长，提高经济多样性，减少收入不平等和减缓人口变化。
These factors are relevant across the globe – but especially here in Korea.
这些问题在全球范围内都很重要，但在韩国尤其如此。
Think, in particular, about growth. For the last five years, the working-age population increased by 200,000 every year, boosting growth by 0.7 percentage points. Over the next five years, the workforce will shrink by 100,000 a year, subtracting 0.2 percentage points from growth. Enabling more women to work can dramatically alleviate the adverse effects of demographic change.
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