In many Sub-Saharan African countries, girls have lower enrollment rates in seco
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Question
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, girls have lower enrollment rates in secondary schools than do boys. If government policy can provide good schools and encourage girls to take advantage of them,
a. describe two ways in which greater education opportunities for girls could lead to faster economic growth.
b. explain what will happen to potential GDP.
c. explain what will happen to employment. The unemployment levels will decrease since there would be a larger working population.
d. explain what will happen to real wage rate The real wage would decrease since there would be a larger working population. The real wage would increase as productivity increases.
Explanation / Answer
a.In Sub-Saharan African countries, with the implementation of some of the government policies and programmes the eduction oppoutunities for girls could be increased and this would lead to faster economic growth in the following ways-
i. It wold decrease the social flows like child labour, early marriage, pregnancy at a very low age. the workforce thus produced could help in increase in production and other field.
ii. It would increase in spreadin gof same language throughout the country and hence it would help in effective communication throughout theb country
b.the GDP would decrease in the country as the production in the country would increase and this would result in enormous supply throughout the country.
c.Yes,Employment levels will decrease since there would be a larger working population.
but this would result equidistribution of income throughout the country.
d.Yes,the real wage would decrease since there would be a larger working population. The real wage would increase as productivity increases.but with time the wage rate would increase.
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