Saudis And The UAE Will Donate $100 Million To A Fund Inspired By Ivanka Trump.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will donate a combined $100 million to a World Bank fund for women entrepreneurs that was the brainchild of Ivanka Trump.
I've never seen anything come together so quickly, and I really have to say that Ivanka's leadership has been tremendous."
The money will help kick off a $1 billion women's empowerment fund that the World Bank will announce in July, he said.
During an October debate, Trump also told Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, "Saudi Arabia giving $25 million, Qatar, all of these countries.
While Ivanka Trump proposed the idea along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she is not involved with its operation.
Earlier in the day, Ivanka Trump met with a group of elite Saudi women at Tuwaiq Palace in Riyadh, where she largely avoided sharp criticism of the country's treatment of women. »