Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth

Human capital is the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives and that enable them to realize their potential as productive members of society is an important contributor to the wealth of all nations regardless of inco...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/409561592823644562/Survive-Learn-Thrive-Strategic-Human-Capital-Investments-to-Accelerate-Azerbaijan-s-Growth
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spelling okr-10986-345142021-06-14T09:54:21Z Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth World Bank HUMAN CAPITAL MATERNAL HEALTH CHILD HEALTH PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING RESULTS-BASED FINANCING SOCIAL PROTECTION EDUCATION QUALITY LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STATE INTERVENTION TERTIARY EDUCATION STUDENT PERFORMANCE Human capital is the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives and that enable them to realize their potential as productive members of society is an important contributor to the wealth of all nations regardless of income status. While Azerbaijan has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades, it lags its regional peers in terms of human capital accumulation.This report aims to evaluate Azerbaijan’s progress in human capital development and to identify opportunities for accelerating growth. To this end, the analysis uses the HCP to benchmark human capital development in Azerbaijan against its international peers using the Human Capital Index (HCI). The report supplements the HCP with additional analysis assessing key challenges and constraints in the areas that are instrumental for human capital development, and provides pathways for targeted catalytic interventions aimed at yielding positive growth in human capital development in the country. 2020-09-25T15:41:33Z 2020-09-25T15:41:33Z 2020-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/409561592823644562/Survive-Learn-Thrive-Strategic-Human-Capital-Investments-to-Accelerate-Azerbaijan-s-Growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34514 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Europe and Central Asia Azerbaijan
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topic HUMAN CAPITAL
MATERNAL HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH
PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING
RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
SOCIAL PROTECTION
EDUCATION QUALITY
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
STATE INTERVENTION
TERTIARY EDUCATION
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
spellingShingle HUMAN CAPITAL
MATERNAL HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH
PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING
RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
SOCIAL PROTECTION
EDUCATION QUALITY
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
STATE INTERVENTION
TERTIARY EDUCATION
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
World Bank
Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Azerbaijan
description Human capital is the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives and that enable them to realize their potential as productive members of society is an important contributor to the wealth of all nations regardless of income status. While Azerbaijan has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades, it lags its regional peers in terms of human capital accumulation.This report aims to evaluate Azerbaijan’s progress in human capital development and to identify opportunities for accelerating growth. To this end, the analysis uses the HCP to benchmark human capital development in Azerbaijan against its international peers using the Human Capital Index (HCI). The report supplements the HCP with additional analysis assessing key challenges and constraints in the areas that are instrumental for human capital development, and provides pathways for targeted catalytic interventions aimed at yielding positive growth in human capital development in the country.
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title Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
title_short Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
title_full Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
title_fullStr Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
title_full_unstemmed Survive, Learn, Thrive : Strategic Human Capital Investments to Accelerate Azerbaijan’s Growth
title_sort survive, learn, thrive : strategic human capital investments to accelerate azerbaijan’s growth
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/409561592823644562/Survive-Learn-Thrive-Strategic-Human-Capital-Investments-to-Accelerate-Azerbaijan-s-Growth
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