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Education and gender equality: focus on girls isn’t fair and isn’t enough – global study

By Kathryn Watt, Research Manager, The Asenze Project, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chris Desmond, Professor, Derek Schrier and the Cecily Cameron Chair in Development Economics, SEF, University of the Witwatersrand

For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 billion in education projects benefiting adolescent girls.

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