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Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" ( 2011 ). License : CC BY-4.0. Line Bar Map. Details.

The Human Capital Index (HCI) database provides data at the country level for each of the components of the Human Capital Index as well as for the overall index, disaggregated by gender. The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor education that prevail in the country where she lives.

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a long-standing member of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which was established in 2002 as the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative. Created to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 (achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women) and the Education For All goals agreed in Dakar in 2000, the partnership directly supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4.

The Story of Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program. Egypt has made investment in people a top priority, as it believes that investing in its human capital is integral to the country’s overall development. Accordingly, the country’s ambitious economic reform program launched in 2014 - which included removal of energy subsidies, the adoption of a flexible exchange rate and the introduction of a new VAT tax - was coupled with efforts of scaling up social protection programs.

Adjusted Net Savings (ANS) is measured as gross national saving minus the depreciation of produced capital, depletion of subsoil assets and timber resources, the cost of pollution damages, plus a credit for education expenditures. This dataset includes ANS and its underlying components (including natural resource rents), as well as adjusted Net National Income (aNNI).

The Human Capital Index (HCI) database provides data at the country level for each of the components of the Human Capital Index as well as for the overall index, disaggregated by gender. The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor education that prevail in the country where she lives.

Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data are available online at: oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline. World Bank gross capital formation estimates are used for the denominator.

The Gambia High Frequency Phone Survey was prepared and implemented in close collaboration between the World Bank and the Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) to provide timely data to inform the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to social distancing restrictions, traditional data collection techniques could not be used. As a result, phone surveys were deployed to fill data gaps and provide ...

Among a pioneering breed of mobile financial services gaining ground in Latin America, DaviPlata stands out for its innovative approach to reaching the low-income and poor. Through a freemium model, customers can transfer money across wallets, cash in and out, and request their wallet balance from their phone at no cost.

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