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Keep girls in schools to end hunger and poverty, Sachs tells governments

Girls in Cameroon

Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Keeping girls in schools in Africa is key to lowering the fast-growing continent’s high fertility rates and ultimately ending hunger and poverty, US economist Jeffrey Sachs said Wednesday. Failure to do would bring more misery and suffering to the region, he warned, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where nearly one in four […]