Essays on Human Capital Development in Latin America and Spain
Author : Kerstin Manzel
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2012
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Author : Kerstin Manzel
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2012
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Author : Jere Richard Behrman
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
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Within the emerging Latin American consensus on development, human resource investments are considered essential for reducing poverty and integrating economic growth and social reform. Investing in people enables work forces to adapt to rapidly changing markets and share in the benefits of economic growth. Human Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean examines investments across the region in education, training, health and nutrition. The book points to the impact of human resource investment on productivity and income distribution, and examines how changes in human resource policies - particularly those affecting the delivery of social services - could substantially improve returns in several key areas of development. Although a survey finds Latin America's human resources fare relatively well by international comparison - with high investment levels in some countries associated historically with good macroeconomic performance - important gaps and inadequate investment in recent years are cause for concern.
Author : George Edward Schuh
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural laborers
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The role of human capital in agricultural development; The data for Latin America; Some policy implications and suggestions.
Author : Fabian A Borges
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472902776
Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)—innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend school. Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated. In this book, author Fabián A. Borges demonstrates that this ideology greatly influenced both the adoption and design of CCTs. There were two distinct models of CCTs: a “human capital” model based on means-tested targeting and strict enforcement of program conditions, exemplified by the program launched by Mexico’s right, and a more universalistic “basic income” model with more permissive enforcement of conditionality, exemplified by Brazil’s program under Lula. These two models then spread across the region. Whereas right and center governments, with assistance from international financial institutions, enacted CCTs based on the human capital model, the left, with assistance from Brazil, enacted CCTs based on the basic income model. The existence of two distinct types of CCTs and their relation to ideology is supported by quantitative analyses covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research in three countries. Left-wing governments operate CCTs that cover more people and spend more on those programs than their center or right-wing counterparts. Beyond coverage, a subsequent analysis of the 10 national programs adopted after Lula’s embrace of CCTs confirms that program design—evaluated in terms of scope of the target population, strictness of conditionality enforcement, and stipend structure—is shaped by government ideology. This finding is then fleshed out through case studies of the political processes that culminated in the adoption of basic income CCTs by left-wing governments in Argentina and Bolivia and a human capital CCT by a centrist president in Costa Rica.
Author : Juan Luis Londoño de la Cuesta
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : William D. Savedoff
Publisher : IDB
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781886938847
Author : Mr.Paolo Mauro
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451842503
This study constructs an index of human capital for the Spanish labor force over the past two decades and projects it over the next decade on the basis of likely demographic developments. The methodology considers both educational attainment resulting from formal schooling and improvements in workers’ productivity resulting from experience, or “learning by doing.” Furthermore, it allows for the fact that people with higher education accumulate human capital through learning by doing at a faster pace than less educated workers or, in other words, that the full returns to formal schooling are realized with a lag of many years. Using this index, a growth accounting exercise is conducted to estimate the impact of human capital accumulation on economic growth over the past two decades. Finally, potential output growth is projected over the next few years, taking into account the impact of human capital accumulation.
Author : Luis Ratinoff
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1966*
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Author : Donald J. Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Economic development
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Examines the interaction between gender, human capital and growth in six Latin American countries. Finds that rising educational achievement is causally linked to rising per capita output. Concludes that as women join the labour force there is a tendency towards fewer children and higher family investment in education, leading to a decline in quantity and increase in the quality of workforce. Covers mainly the period from the 1970s to 1990s.
Author : Jacqueline Mazza
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Human capital
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