To respond to climate change effectively, human capital needs to be at the heart of policy responses. This policy note demonstrates the impacts of climate change across the lifecycle and provides a framework of policy and program interventions to protect, build, and use human capital to minimize...

The environment has long been the foundation of human flourishing, but its continued degradation is threatening to reverse recent development gains, especially in human health. This paper analyzes the possible complementarity between natural and human capital by linking high-resolution...

Cette revue du capital humain évalue les résultats ducapital humain en Mauritanie. La revue identifie desactions pour renforcer, utiliser et protéger le capitalhumain. Le gouvernement de la Mauritanie a faitpreuve d'un engagement fort pour placer le capitalhumain au premier plan de sa vision...

This report is undertaken as a part of the Human Capital Project (HCP), a globalinitiative of the World Bank Group that aims to increase governments' awarenessof the importance of investing in people (World Bank n.d.b). One of the maincomponents of the HCP is a cross-country metric-the Human...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) hamper the development of human capital for current and future generations. NCDs are chronic conditions that are often untreatable and require close monitoring to control the progression of the disease. They account for 70 percent of all deaths worldwide and...

Based on a Human Capital Index (HCI) simulation, it is projected that a Djiboutian born in 2022 will achieve only 41 percent (HCI of 0.41) of their full human capital potential by the age of 18. This means that 59 percent of talent in Djibouti remains untapped, highlighting a missed opportunity...