Investing in high-quality programs that support young children’s health, nutrition, and early learning improves learning outcomes and ultimately increases adult wages and productivity. This note presents...
Pakistan can realize major economic growth and development by investing in its people and their human capital. But the reality is that Pakistan’s human capital is low and has improved only marginally over...
This note develops back-of-the-envelope estimates of what it would cost to provide all children with a life raft: schooling at a minimum quality level to achieve literacy and develops a framework of interventions...
Pakistan faces a human capital crisis. Its population, three-quarters of which is under the age of 35, has very recent memories of failures in the schooling system and in health services. Federal and provincial...
Pakistan can realize major economic growth and development by investing in its people and their human capital. But the reality is that Pakistan’s human capital is low and has improved only marginally over...
Investments in human capital and labor market outcomes are self-reinforcing. The problem is that poorer households are often unable to invest enough in human capital, so they lag in human development outcomes...
This note’s findings are based on desk reviews and consultations with key stakeholders to collect and analyze data pertaining to nutrition interventions and their quality, coverage, service delivery and...
In response to a request from the Government of Egypt, the World Bank undertook the analysis of selected sectoral issues in education and health. The objective of the analytical task was to inform policies...
This paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The analysis uses severall tools, including comparison of the distributions of early risks...
The paper examines the levels and trends in access to education and educational outcomes across generations of Egyptian youth. Examination of three cohorts of individuals aged 21 to 24 (born between 1964...