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Healthy, educated women lead to healthy economies

Investing in women's health, education and economic empowerment is critical for ending global poverty, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told a major women's health and rights conference on Wednesday.

More than 5,500 delegates are attending the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen a major global conference on the health, rights and wellbeing of women and girls.

Here are some facts:

*Girls and women spend 90 percent of their earned income on their families while men spend 30-40 percent.

*Giving female farmers the same access to resources as men could lift up to 150 million people out . . .

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