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A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Dsouza, Ritika - 2019

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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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences - Egypt

Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research - 2021

Government-led economic reform programs have been an important vehicle to improve the lives of Egyptian citizens. This case study describes one of these programs, which reduced energy subsidies to enable the government to channel more investment into the human capital sectors, health, education,...

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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences; Ireland

World Bank Group - 2021

Over the last sixty years, Ireland has experienced profound economic, social, technological, occupational, cultural, and demographic changes. It has emerged from the most recent economic crisis stronger than ever and remains committed to its vision of a nation of people armed with the relevant...

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Human Capital Index 2020 Update : Human capital in the time of covid-19

Weltbank - 2021

This report presents an update to the Human Capital Index (HCI), using the most recent health and education data …

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State-level estimates of the Human Capital Index for India

Chakraborty, Abhijit; Tagat, Anirudh; Roy Mukherjee, … - 2021

-level measure of the Human Capital Index to highlight the shortfall in terms of human capital at sub-national levels in India. The …

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Avoiding the middle-income trap : the spatial-temporal effects of human capital on regional economic growth in Northeast China

Yu, Tingting; Rong, Ah; Hao, Feilong - In: Growth and change : a journal of urban and regional policy 53 (2022) 2, pp. 536-558

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2010

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the economic performance across regions. However, empirical evidence for this claim has been not very convincing, probably due to low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative human...

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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences - Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2020

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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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences - Morocco

Benkassmi, Mohamed - 2020

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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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences - Philippines

King, Elizabeth - 2020

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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