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Educate girls, eradicate poverty a mutually reinforcing goal
- Source: UN Chronicle, Volume 47, Issue 1, Apr 2012, p. 37 - 39
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- 17 Apr 2012
Abstract
There is no question that educating girls is a prerequisite for eradicating poverty. Education empowers and transforms women. It allows them to break the “traditional” cycle of exclusion that keeps them at home and disengaged from decision making Education, especially higher education, can prepare women to take on roles of responsibility in government, business and civil society. Women make ideal leaders: numerous
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