Girls, education, and development
By: Carol Bellamy
Contributors: UNICEF
Series: The state of the world's children -- 2004; State of the world's children -- 2004.
Publisher: UNICEF
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Jeugdbescherming; Statistics; Kinderen; Girls; Economic Development; Pays en développement; Femmes; Données statistiques; Education; Adolescent; UNICEF; Right to education; Socioeconomic Factors; Child; Child Welfare; Women
Description: Focuses on girls' education and its relationship to all other development goals and to the promise of Education For All. It presents a multi-layered case for investing in girls' education as a strategic way to ensure the rights of both boys and girls and to advance a country's development agenda. The web summary touches on general points of the main text and presents panel abstracts highlighting successful programmes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: To jump-start development; title: Educated girls, a uniquely positive force for development; title: Girls left out, countries left behind; title: The multiplier effect of educating girls; title: What about boys?; title: The right thing to do.