This presentation by Joana Silva from the World Bank discusses the brand new Human Capital Report and the Human Capital Index Plus, with emphasis on the report's policy implications and its analysis of human capital accumulation today and in the future.
Dr. Silva's presentation will outline new evidence and policy approaches to strengthening human capital investments, drawing on insights from the recently published Human Capital Report and the Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+). The report provides new evidence on how human capital – namely people’s health, skills, knowledge, and experience – is formed not only through education and health systems, but also through the settings in which people live and work, including homes, neighborhoods and workplaces. It examines these settings’ economic impacts, showing outcomes within countries and how public policies can promote more human capital accumulation in homes, neighbourhoods and workplaces.
Dr. Silva will also present new data from the World Bank’s Human Capital Index Plus (HCI+), which measures how much human capital a child born today can expect to accumulate over their working life, given the risks to health, education and employment that prevail in the country where they live, and estimates how human gains – or losses – affect lifetime productivity and future earnings.
Meet our speaker
Joana Silva is the Deputy Chief Economist for People Vertical at the World Bank Group, where she has led multiple World Bank operations and published reports. She is also an associate professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (Portugal), specialising in applied economics, labour economics, international economics, development economics and public economics. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham.
Meet our chair
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He is a past President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.
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