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Development In Focus: Senegal’s Women Rice Farmers

Graham Watson

8th March 2024

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Lots of interesting little contributory factors to economic development in this IFC clip: female participation - and their importance to the labour force, food security and the returns to investment in female education and training and, the positive externalities that this helps generate. A lovely example of how development economics can simultaneously be both simple and complex

https://youtu.be/H3Qe77XkzHI?si=9NYkX1ouiv5vmyal
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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to tutor2u, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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