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Italy, the use of such an index at national level may not be enough to have a clear picture of the human capital conditions … high heterogeneity into consideration, we develop a Human Capital Index for Italy disaggregated at provincial level. The …
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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
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Government-led economic reform programs have been an important vehicle to improve the lives of Egyptian citizens. This case study describes one of these programs, which reduced energy subsidies to enable the government to channel more investment into the human capital sectors, health, education,...
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This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …
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-level measure of the Human Capital Index to highlight the shortfall in terms of human capital at sub-national levels in India. The …
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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...
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