In the last three decades, East Asia has reaped the demographic dividend. An abundant and growing labor force powered almost one-third of the region’s per capita income growth from the 1960s to the 1990s, making it the world’s growth engine. Now, East Asia is facing the challenges posed by ...
Increasing demand for better quality data and more investment to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems will require increased emphasis on objective, comparable, cost-effective monitoring and assessment methods to measure progress. We apply a composite index (the vital statistics performance index [VSPI]) to assess the performance of CRVS systems in 148 countries or territories during 1980–2012 and classify them into five distinct performance categories, ranging from rudimentary (with scores close to zero) to satisfactory (with scores close to one), with a mean VSPI score since 2005 of 0·61 (SD 0·31).
Improving nutrition in early childhood led to substantial increases in wage rates for men, which suggests that investments in early childhood nutrition can be long-term drivers of economic growth.
Learn more about the growth of the independent workforce in the U.S. and how it affects the labor market.
Hicks, Joan; Kremer, Michael; Mbiti, Isaac; Miguel, Edward. 2013. Vocational education voucher delivery and labor market returns: a randomized evaluation among Kenyan youth (English). enGender Impact : the World Bank's Gender Impact Evaluation Database. Washington DC : World Bank.
Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the same time employers lament the students' lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perception...
There is a growing body of work that highlights gender disparities along various dimensions and the resulting consequences on economic outcomes. The present study contributes to this strand of the ...
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Subramanian in the Economic Survey 2016-17 had mooted the idea of universal basic income or a uniform stipend paid to every adult and child, poor or rich.
Over the last 2 years, eBay has released studies documenting the amazing success of technology-enabled small businesses traders in the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia-Pacific. Most of this work has looked at small businesses that are located in the developed world. Our newest report looks at technology-enabled small bus
