The objective of this ASA was 'to develop policy recommendations for the Russian Federation based on a detailed analysis of the returns to education and identification of feasible pathways for robust growth in Russia's human capital wealth'. The second part of identifying feasible pathways was...

The 2020 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period from January to December 2019. The addition of Somalia brought the number of the region's International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries to 39. The overall CPIA score for the region's 39...

Eine Synopse aktueller Forschungsliteratur zeigt, dass sich die Höhe der qualifikatorischen Bildungsrenditen zwischen Studien unterscheidet. Die Autorinnen untersuchen empirisch, ob die Variation der Renditen systematisch vom gewählten Datensatz abhängt. Die qualifikatorischen...

Tajikistan's human capital, eroded by the country's civil war (1992-97), remains low today. According to analyses by the World Bank's Human Capital Project, a child born in Tajikistan today is expected to be 53 percent as productive as he or she could be with full health and complete education....