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Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Wo

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问题     Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.
   Women’s education may be unusual territory for economists, but enhancing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its emphasis on incentives (激励), provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education.
    Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school the prophecy (预言)becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
    An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
    Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
What does the author say about women’s education?
选项 A、It deserves greater attention than other social issues.
B、It is now given top priority in many developing countries.
C、It will yield greater returns than other known investments.
D、It has aroused the interest of a growing number of economists.
答案C
解析 文章并没有提及女性教育问题比其他社会问题重要，因此选项A不正确；文章也没提到女性教育问题被很多国家列为首要发展的问题，选项B不正确：而文章第一段第二句指出“Women’s education may be unusual territory for economists”，该句意为：女性的教育问题对经济学家可能是个不寻常的领域，但并不表示越来越多的经济学家对此问题很感兴趣，因此，选项D不正确。根据文章第一段第一句，选项C正确。
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