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Inequality of opportunity : what it is, how it can be measured, and why it matters -- A human opportunity index for … children -- Uses and policy applications of the human opportunity index -- Inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin …
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developments in Ghana in the context of the World Bank's Human Capital Index, launched in 2018. First, it identifies the two …
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This case study examines the policies, programs and processes undertaken in Morocco to improve its human capital outcomes since the 1990s. Sustained political commitment to education as a national priority across successive governments meant that while the net enrollment rate in primary school...
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quality of those services. In 2018, its rating on the Human Capital Index, a composite measure based on survival rates, the …
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Singapore has demonstrated that investing in human capital can have a high payoff and that nothing is impossible. Its example should inspire others to redouble their own efforts, not to replicate the model in its entirety necessarily but to take full advantage of the various lessons that can be...
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The Human Capital Index (HCI) is an international metric that benchmarks key components of human capital across …
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The Cultural Trade Index aims to shed light on cultural trade and stimulate interest in how this little-known area can … contribute to economic diversification, boost shared prosperity, and reduce extreme poverty. As the first index of its kind, the … Cultural Trade Index would gather cultural trade data scattered across different sources, place them in one place, and show how …
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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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Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by Islamic State militants. Since June 2014, crude oil prices per barrel have fallen from around 112 USD to 97 USD in September and 62 USD by December. Given Iraq's...
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It is often argued that subsidizing fertilizer and other inputs is desirable both to boost agricultural production and to help poor farmers. This analysis of Malawi's huge Farmer Input Subsidy Program highlights a tension between these two objectives: The more FISP increases fertilizer use and...
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