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7. The Financial Times Group also has a stake in a number of joint
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-- FTSE International, a joint venture with the London Stock Exchange.
-- Vedomosti, Russia's leading business newspaper and a partnership
venture with Dow Jones and Independent Media
-- A 50% stake in BDFM, publishers of South Africa's leading financial
newspapers and websites.
-- A 50% stake in The Economist Group, which publishes the world's
leading weekly business and current affairs journal.
-- A 13.85% stake in Business Standard, one of India's leading
financial newspapers. The FT Group is part of Pearson plc, the
international media group.
About CAMFED International:
The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) is an international organisation working to solve long-term health, economic and social issues in Africa by investing in girls' education in some of the poorest regions of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania. CAMFED's vision is a world in which every child is educated, protected, respected and valued, and grows up to turn the tide of poverty.
The Camfed Model is working in an environment where girls and women
have been denied education, intentionally or through passive acceptance of
"the way things have always been'. In over 760 communities in Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Ghana and Tanzania, the model works by enabling girls to complete
their secondary education, start and develop businesses, or go on to higher
education. Since the first girls graduated in 1998, young educated women
have joined decision- making bodies for the first time in their
communities' history. They are driving social and economic change,
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