Missed Opportunities : The High Cost of Not Educating Girls

Finally, when girls and women are better educated, they may be better able to assess the quality of the basic services they rely on and the quality of their country's institutions and leaders. These negative impacts have large economic costs, leading among others to losses in human capital wealth (future lifetime earnings of the labor force) estimated at USD 15 trillion to USD 30 trillion. Educating girls is not only the right thing to do: it is also a smart economic investment