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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 studies channels through which well-known benchmark indexes impact asset allocations and capital flows across countries. The study uses unique monthly micro-level data of benchmark compositions and mutual fund investments during 1996-2012. Benchmarks have important effects on equity...
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major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the …, and landslides, single hazard risk indices are developed. In addition, a multi-hazard index gives a holistic picture 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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This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use individual indicators in specific sectors, making it...
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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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This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at $5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to $30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to monitoring progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of our framework is a macro model which captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education,...
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, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland. All five countries have large pension systems with mandatory or quasi-mandatory retirement …
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Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on average each year. This paper investigates whether the country will be able to maintain such high levels of growth going forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the...
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