Improved living standards could lead rural families to withdraw women from the  4  BIS central bankers’ speeches  labour force (Chart 12). Also, higher prosperity could lead to greater investment in educating girls (for the age group 10 to 24) again leading to lower participation in the workforce. 3.
To summarise  In sum then, when we examine food inflation, a substantial portion stems from an increase in food production costs, primarily rural wage inflation. Some of that is an increase in real wages, needed to attract labour to agriculture, away from construction, education, household work, or MGNREGA.