"This book examines designing and implementing effective human capital development strategies in human capital …

This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … of its portfolio. The paper focuses particularly on the effect of countries' transition from International Development … Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development status, which marks the point when countries start borrowing …

This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of … enjoyed complete education and full health. The methodology of the HCI is anchored in the extensive literature on development …

We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor …

countries to take stock of their assets to monitor the sustainability of development, an urgent concern today for all countries … and provides examples of how wealth accounts can be used for the analysis of development patterns. Several chapters … discuss the new work on human capital and its application in development policy. The book then tackles elements of natural …

1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing … development enhances the capacity of countries to reap the benefits of foreign direct investments … labor productivity only if host countries have a minimum level of human development. This condition may partially explain …