"The Girl Effect" links the end of poverty, etc. to "empowering adolescent girls"

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I couldn't agree more that the primary way to getting out of poverty for the majority of people is getting a useful education. I simply want to point out that poor countries have a problem with children of both sexes not being educated well enough to do the kinds of things that can help their whole community live in a better fashion. By focusing on girls only, the other half of the population of third world nations' children are left out. And frankly I doubt that if half the population of a country is poor and educated and the other half is poor and uneducated, that there can be much political and economic stability anyway.