Disseminating the Human Capital Index/Project in Albania: Media Training for journalists Human Capital Event with Stakeholders Disseminating the Human Capital Index/Project in Macedonia: Адеми: Ги цениме извештаите од Светска банка за состојбите во образованието Ademi: We appreciate the reports from the World Bank on the situation in education Fostering Economic Growth through Human Capital DevelopmentContinue reading “Human Capital News and Research 117”
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The Economic Case for Early Learning We are living in a learning crisis. According to the World Bank’s 2018 World Development Report, millions of students in developing countries are in schools that are failing to educate them to succeed in life. According to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, there are 617 million children and youthContinue reading “Human Capital News and Research 116”
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The Human Capital Project Kids Have Best Chance to Thrive In These Nations Building human capital means investing in the science of hope: “Building schools will do little to improve failing national education systems if the quality of learning remains as it is now” Remarks by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at 2018Continue reading “Human Capital News and Research 115”
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The Human Capital Project Harmonized Learning Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia Human Capital and Technology: Building the New Social Contract Which countries are raising the most productive humans? Poland scores high on newly-established Human Capital Index Latvia ranks 35th in World Bank’s Human Capital Index Ukraine – the 50th in the world for the qualityContinue reading “The Human Capital Project News and Research 114”
The Human Capital Project News and Research 113
The Human Capital Project Everything you need to know to follow the 2018 Annual Meetings Focus on health, education to boost human capital – WB Human capital and technology: building the new social contract The direction of education in Japan Heckman et al. 2018. “Returns to education: The causal effects of education on earnings, health, and smoking”Continue reading “The Human Capital Project News and Research 113”
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The Human Capital Project News and Research 112 Methodology for a World Bank Human Capital Index The HCI combines indicators of health and education into a measure of the human capital that a child born today can expect to obtain by her 18th birthday, given the risks of poor education and health that prevail inContinue reading “The Human Capital Project 112”
Education and Development News and Research 111
Prime Minister of Georgia presents education reform strategy Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and Education Minister Mikheil Batiashvili have presented a strategy for Georgian education reform today in Ikalto, in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia, where one of the first Georgian academies was built in the 11th century… Early-stage education gets new World BankContinue reading “Education and Development News and Research 111”
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Why Ukraine’s Education System is Not Sustainable …it is hard to believe that the state spends 6 percent of GDP on education – one of the highest rates of public spending on education in the world. Ukrainian schools often lack adequate facilities, modern equipment or quality textbooks. Rural schools may sometimes lack indoor restrooms, toContinue reading “Education and Development News and Research 110”
International Literacy Day 2018 | 8 September 2018 (Education and Development News and Research 109)
Today is #InternationalLiteracyDay. The rate of return to education is 9% Helen Abadzi: the perils of childhood illiteracy Every September 8, on International Literacy Day, my memory goes to the illiterate women of my youth. Poverty and ethnic conflict in my native Greece were severe several decades ago, but they presented the same educational problems asContinue reading “International Literacy Day 2018 | 8 September 2018 (Education and Development News and Research 109)”
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Summer Executive Program | Jointly Sponsored by the World Bank and Peking University’s China Institute for Educational Finance Research | Education’s Promises and Challenges: Focusing on Quality and Equity | August 26-31, 2018, Beijing, China Peking University & World Bank co-sponsor 2018 International Summer School on Education (北大教育财政所与世界银行共同主办2018年“教育与发展”国际暑期学校) to explore ways to improve the qualityContinue reading “Education and Development News and Research 108”
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