Economic Impacts of Gender Inequality in Niger
Reducing gender inequality could increase GDP per capita by more than a fourth in Niger by 2030. These significant economic gains would be generated by enabling women to have the same earnings as men and reducing fertility and thereby population gr...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/541361576613122122/Economic-Impacts-of-Gender-Inequality-in-Niger http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33093 |
| Summary: | Reducing gender inequality could
increase GDP per capita by more than a fourth in Niger by
2030. These significant economic gains would be generated by
enabling women to have the same earnings as men and reducing
fertility and thereby population growth. Investing in girls’
education and reducing child marriage are critical to
achieve these objectives, as are investments to raise
women’s participation in the labor force and their
productivity at work. While the estimates of the gains
presented in this study are meant only to provide orders of
magnitude, they suggest that achieving gender equality could
have major benefits and should be a top priority for the government. |
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