Brazil Human Capital Review : Investing in People
How much talent is lost in Brazil because of unideal education and health conditions The Brazil Human Capital Review is part of the Human Capital Project, a global initiative of the World Bank Group that aims to raise attention on the importance of...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099359007012217076/IDU0c9bcb58a08ac704dbe081eb077b28ef22453 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37626 |
| Summary: | How much talent is lost in Brazil
because of unideal education and health conditions The
Brazil Human Capital Review is part of the Human Capital
Project, a global initiative of the World Bank Group that
aims to raise attention on the importance of investing in
people. Its focus relies on the conditions hindering
children to flourish their potential labor productivity in
Brazil. As a first step, this report proposes the Human
Capital Index (HCI) to estimate the expected productivity of
a child born today by the age of 18 when education and
health conditions remain unaltered. Or simply, the HCI
estimates the productivity level of the next generation of
works. The results are alarming. How can Brazil recover from
a decade lost in terms of human capital formation Mitigating
the effects of the pandemic should be a priority. In the
short-term, recommendations include: (a) adapt and
strengthen policies already in place that have proven
effects on human capital; (b) use the national conditional
cash transfer program to support those more heavily affected
by the pandemic; and (c) set as utmost priority a learning
recovery and acceleration plan for the coming years. |
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