find mitigating gender education inequality to be associated with lower infant mortality and poverty rates and improvements … female-to-male ratio of average years of schooling is associated with a lower poverty rate by about 0.98 percentage points …

economic development, growth, and poverty reduction not only because of the income it generates, but also because it helps to … break the vicious cycle of poverty. Educating girls and women is critical to economic development. Research conducted in a … development. Female education creates powerful poverty-reducing synergies and yields enormous intergenerational gains. It is …