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, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Development countries and education for developing countries in the most recent decade. The regression results indicate that …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 …-the countries that have the most to gain from the potential benefits of a high-quality education; (3) the data set contains credible … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...
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development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …
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This paper presents evidence on implementation of the World Bank Group and Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative "Principles for Public Credit Guarantee Schemes for Small and Medium Enterprises". The evidence is based on a self-assessment of 60 schemes in 54 countries. Overall,...
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The Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) provides its members with overviews of the potential solutions to recover and monetize the flared and/or associated gas. This study analyses two options that could be used for this monetization of small volumes (1 -15 MMscf/d): the LNG and CNG...
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The Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) provides its members with overviews of the potential solutions to recover and monetize the flared and/or associated gas. The purpose of this report is to compare the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) chain concepts...
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While the LNG industry has traditionally focused primarily on development of ever increasing plant capacities, the maturity of the technology has allowed development of technologies applicable for small volumes to be competitive and potentially economically attractive. The main challenge for...
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