Girl Child Education Research Paper

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The Importance of Girl-Child Education on Economic Development of a Country.
It is a generally established fact that the core indicator to economic development and advancement of any country is the level of its citizen educational improvement (Abbagana 2013). The function education plays in enhancing the lives of people accelerate its economic development. The quality and availability of education available to the girl-child is a determinant in the developmental pace of a country (Nwakego, 2014).
Education is a key factor in any country’s economic and infrastructural development especially in the 21st century; it is the key factor that empowers its people and build up national growth. Of the concluding Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) of …show more content…

The education of the girl-child today is very important as it does contribute immensely to national development and societal excellence. The education of all (EFA) agenda also primarily emphasises the imperativeness of the girl-child education and empower her for great exploit.
However, in recent times, the girl-child education has become a very important globally agenda, especially among developed countries towards the developing countries across the globe where the right of a girl-child is always violated, the deprivation of education to the girl-child in some societies are based on their traditional, religious or cultural ideologies whereby the female child is not entitle to education as a fellow male counterpart.
The education of the girl dated back into the centuries before now has been quite an unpleasant issue to the girl-child, the girl –child irrespective of her age, is not given the same privilege as the male child, it was generally believed then that the girl-child education is insignificant as their lives always ends in the kitchen as house wives and mother so educating them will be a waste of resources and …show more content…

James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey once said “If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a nation”. This is to mean that the economic importance of educating a girl-child cannot be overemphasis as it is a key ingredient to the development of any given society (Salman et al; 2011).
The investment in human capital development especially in the education and empowerment of the girl-child as stated early is a key agenda of the MDGs and also the SDGs. It is generally believed that educated women irrespective of their ages are more engage in productive activities, (Bradshaw & Diop 2013). they are more likely to invest more into education for their own wards and they are likely to have a few number of children that they can take good care of, thus, investing in the human capital development of the girl-child has a positive and a long term effect on the country’s population, and also for productivity which in turn boost the economy development of a country (Bradshaw & Diop

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