Higher women share in labour force to lift India's growth rate: World Bank

India's economy could achieve double-digit growth if New Delhi pushes reforms to increase women's participation in the country's workforce, a World Bank report said on Monday.

Such reforms would boost household earnings and reduce poverty, besides creating better health and education conditions for the women's children, it said.

Asia's third-largest economy has been growing at around 7 percent for the past three years. Policy makers aspire to copy China's three decades-long double-digit growth miracle that dramatically reduced poverty and increased per capita income there.

Women's labour force participation in India declined to 27 percent in 2011-2012 - among the lowest in the world