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Hello, I'm Edward McBride, the finance editor.

This week on Money Talks, we'll check in with our correspondent in Kenya, Daniel Knowles,

about his special report on doing business in Africa.

There are things that are entrenched, there are things that have happened in terms of the

growth of the little class that there are people who really have an interest now in ability and there are far fewer governments that will throw everything into civil war or into straightforward political oppression.

Before that, however, we look at how single women are reshaping the global economy.

Historically, women were forced to depend on their husbands, but increasingly, as they have more economic and educational mobility and they have more

doors open to them, they can delay marriage because they can be economically independent themselves.

Rebecca Traster is the author of a new book, All the Single Ladies, Unmarried Women and the Rise of

an Independent Nation.

The fact that we now increasingly have unmarried women who are not regarded as aberrations but as part of the new normal

actually helps us to get used to the idea that women can be economic and

professional peers of men because they have to be in workplaces.

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