The World Bank is the latest official body to take the plunge and join the YouTube revolution. This short video looks at the results from the 2007 Global Monitoring Report: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States by putting a human face on the sometimes abstract and dry data.

According to the World Bank:

Investing in women is smart economics and vital to achieving key development goals. Better educated women lead to better educational and nutritional outcomes for their children.

Intute: Social Sciences features more resources from official bodies on YouTube, on the topic of Women and Economics and on Development Economics.