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Thailand Economic Monitor, January 2019 : Inequality, Opportunity and Human Capital
World Bank Group - 2019
, machinery and equipment. Strong domestic demand offset partially adverse global factors-the China-US trade dispute-as well as …
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Uganda Economic Update, 13th Edition, May 2019 : Economic Development and Human Capital in Uganda - A Case for Investing More in Education
World Bank Group - 2019
The World Bank's analysis of cross-country data on human capital indicates that Uganda is underinvesting in the future productivity of its citizens. A child born in Uganda today will onlybe 38 percent as productive when she grows up as she could be if she enjoyed complete education and full...
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Education for Growth and Prosperity
Kim, Jim Yong - 2017
Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, explained that the MENA Concessional Financing Facility, an innovative approach to addressing the Syrian refugee crisis, has been re-envisioned as a Global Facility to address displacement crises in any middle-income country in the world. He spoke...
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Bangladesh Tertiary Education Sector Review : Skills and Innovation for Growth
Rahman, Tashmina - 2019
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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The effect of increasing human capital investment on economic growth and poverty : a simulation exercise : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report
Collin, Matthew; Weil, David N. - 2018
This paper examines the dynamic responses of income and poverty to increased investment in the human capital of new cohorts of workers, using a quantitative macroeconomic model with realistic demography. Compared to a baseline in which the rate of human capital investment currently observed in...
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From Ghana to America : the skill content of jobs and economic development
Bello, Salvatore Lo; Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura; … - 2019
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not...
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … father is college educated. In China, the conditional expectation function is convex for sons in urban areas, but linear in … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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Are the Children of Uneducated Farmers Doubly Disadvantaged? : Farm, Nonfarm and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural China
Emran, M. Shahe - 2015
uses data from rural China that cover three generations, and are not subject to coresident sample selection. Evidence from …
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