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drivers follow their historical or recent trends, and under different scenarios of reform, using the World Bank Long … capital and slowing growth rates of total factor productivity and human capital. Strong reforms are required for Malaysia to …, and total factor productivity. In the strong reform scenario, based on growth drivers achieving a target corresponding to …
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Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …
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variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world … productivity for working-age adults within a city …
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, explained that the MENA Concessional Financing Facility, an innovative … any middle-income country in the world. He spoke about the importance of education, as the key for economic growth … opportunities, which are essential for long-term peace and stability. In our rapidly changing world, the nexus of business …
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …
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World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the …
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This report aims to provide policy makers in Albania with new evidence to inform the design and implementation of public policies on post-secondary education, vocational education and training (VET) system labor market information and intermediation, and labor policies. The STEP Employer Survey...
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Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity-and when productivity is … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the … complementary productivity-enhancing activities within the firm. The literature suggests that for most firms, a comprehensive policy …
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This literature review summarizes the link between psychological well-being and entrepreneurial outcomes for small and medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable psychosocial training interventions, based on...
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