London (Reuters)-gender equality is smart economics and the rights of man, said on Monday, the world bank in a report shows, with better opportunities for women and girls, the country can increase productivity and development.
The most obvious is the gap between girls and women die and man in developing countries, according to "the speed of the world development report 2012: gender equality and development."
, the world bank's new chief economist Justin yifu Lin said: "" stop women and girls acquired skills and income, in a globalized world success is not only wrong, but also caused damage to the economy development.
"Between the man and woman share the results of growth and globalization, also is the main development goals is very important."
The report quoted the United Nations food and agriculture organization estimates that, female farmers to get equal resources, can increase in poor countries of the agricultural production of 4%.
It also said, removing obstacles, prevent in certain industries of working women dropped by a third to a half of between male and female workers, and increase the productivity gap between 3 to 25%, and in some countries, the workers' output per person.
World bank President Robert zoellick said: "we need to achieve gender equality,".
He said that in the past five years the world bank provides financial support girls education, women's health and women get credit, land, agricultural services, employment and infrastructure.
"This is an important work, but it has not been enough or central enough we did. In the future, the world bank group will our gender into mainstream work and looking the other way to push the agenda of the capture full potential of half the population of the world."
In recent years have made significantly raise gender equality. Women now account for 40% of the global Labour force, the agricultural 43% of the work force, more than half of the college students, according to the report.
It added that, in the past 30 years, more than 5 billion women to join labor.




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