dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-03T16:06:45Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-03T16:06:45Z
dc.date.issued	2018-10-11
dc.description.abstract	By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Investments in human capital have become more important as the nature of work has evolved. Yet despite substantial progress, significant gaps in human capital investments are leaving the world poorly prepared for what lies ahead. The World Bank Group has launched the Human Capital Project (HCP) to mobilize efforts to address these gaps. The project is intended to raise awareness of the costs of inaction and make the case for investing in people through country engagement and analytical work. The goal of the HCP is a world in which all children arrive at school ready to learn, the time spent in school translates into better learning, and they can grow up to live and work as healthy, skilled, and productive adults. The main text of this volume—which also appears as chapter 3 in the 2019 World Development Report: The Changing Nature of Work —describes the evidence supporting the importance of human capital for people, economies, and societies and lays out the rationale and context for the HCP’s theory of change. The Human Capital Index methodology is detailed in the appendix.
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/30498
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/30498
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL INDEX
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	HEALTH
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	POTENTIAL
dc.subject	NUTRITION
dc.subject	SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
dc.title	The Human Capital Project	en
dc.type	Brief	en
dc.type	Fiche	fr
dc.type	Resumen	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30435 World Development Report 2019
okr.associatedcontent	https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital Human Capital Project webpage
okr.crossref.title	The Human Capital Project
okr.date.disclosure	2018-10-10
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-10T02:48:15.957575Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Brief
okr.externalurl	www.worldbank.org/humancapital
okr.externalurl	http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital
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okr.guid	780771566979189567
okr.guid	418491566980108325
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/30498
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	33252
okr.identifier.report	131462
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Education::Early Childhood Development
okr.topic	Education::Education For All
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Early Child and Children's Health
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Nutrition
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.unit	DECCE

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