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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 …
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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 …, competitiveness, and social cohesion. It is also the foundation for innovation and development, and opens the way for lifelong …
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drivers follow their historical or recent trends, and under different scenarios of reform, using the World Bank Long …
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The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital …
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operational work, as well as on inputs from financial sector professionals and researchers both within and outside the World Bank …
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The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and iverse manifestations …
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In spite of the United States' recovery, most Caribbean nations are still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth relates to that of key drivers of the global economy. The...
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In an era of globalization and rapidly changing technology, the nature of work and skills required is also rapidly … redefined. The World Bank's skills toward employment and productivity (STEP) framework defined three types of skills: (a …
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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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