Child labor is a pervasive problem
throughout the world, especially in developing countries.
Africa and Asia togethere areccount for over 90 percent of
total child employment....
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14845Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Siddiqi, Faraaz ;
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Increased awareness of the volume and
direction of international population movements has been
accompanied by growing awareness that migration is linked --
often in...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14568Date: May 31, 1995Author:
Russell, Sharon Stanton
The evidence shows that government
spending for health in many developing countries benefits
the well-to-do more than the poor. However, a combination of
favorable political...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14567Date: May 31, 1995Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Hecht, Robert
Knowledge and information are
increasingly becoming the key factors of production and
exchange, and this has major implications for developing
countries and for such...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14388Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Dahlman,Carl J.
The mode of payment creates powerful
incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency,
equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This
paper examines...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14053Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Barnum, Howard ;
Kutzin, Joseph ;
Saxenian, Helen
This paper is based on the transcript of
a lecture presented by the author on the importance of human
resources development as a means of poverty mitigation and
the...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14458Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Becker,Gary S.
This paper examines the determinants and
consequences of population growth in Egypt in the recent
past and the near future. Since slowing the growth rate of
population...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13987Date: February 28, 1995Author:
Cochrane, Susan H. ;
Massiah, Ernest E.
Literacy rates represent the most
telling indicators of a country's educational status.
The core of mass public education, and hence the starting
place for literacy...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 14052Date: February 28, 1995Author:
Chowdhury, Kowsar P.
Human resources programs are evaluated
by comparing the productivity of individuals who have
benefited from a specific program to the productivity of
similar individuals...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13945Date: January 31, 1995Author:
Schultz, T. Paul
The World Bank's 1993 World
Development Report (WDR): Investing in Health makes
extensive use of the concept the global burden of disease to
measure the state of health...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13946Date: January 31, 1995Author:
Musgrove, Philip
The need to constrain escalating health
care cost is one of the major challenges facing health care
systems. It is often argued that price control is an
effective tool...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13809Date: December 31, 1994Author:
Nguyen Xuan Nguyen
Development priorities among human
resource programs should be determined primarily on the
basis of expected productive returns on these investment
activities, arrived...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13797Date: November 30, 1994Author:
Schultz, T. Paul
Indigenous, ethnic, racial and
linguistic minorities worldwide are in an inferior economic
and social position vis-a-vis the mainstream population. The
ethnic concentration...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13801Date: November 30, 1994Author:
Patrinos,Harry Anthony
This paper presents the results of
recent research comparing the relative effectiveness and
efficiency of private and public secondary schools in five
developing countries,...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13672Date: November 30, 1994Author:
Lockheed, Marlaine ;
Jimenez, Emmanuel
Institutional development is becoming a
dominant theme for development assistance as a result of an
increasing appreciation of the complex interrelations that
link institutions,...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13685Date: October 31, 1994Author:
de Capitani, Alberto ;
North, Douglass C.
Over the past two decades, attention to
and demand for early childhood programs has grown worldwide
as a result of: (a) an increasing number of parents
employed outside...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13650Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Young, Mary Eming
This paper makes a distinction between
social safety nets and welfare states and argues that while
the former are needed because of the ubiquitousness of risk
in human...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13651Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Lal,Deepak K.
An extensive literature indicates that a
substantial proportion of the rate of growth of the economy
can be attributed to increases in the educational level of
the labor...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13613Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Patrinos, Harry Anthony
This paper reviews the major policies
that countries employ to rationalize drug expenditures in
terms of their impact, administrative costs, and relevance
to different...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13526Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Saxenian,Helen
World Bank financing for pharmaceuticals
has grown to over US $300 million per year, and this trend
is likely to accelerate because of the growing size of the
population,...
Type: Human Capital Working PaperReport#: 13525Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Broun,Denis D.
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