Building Capabilities for Global Competition and Local Innovation
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) must act to prepare its large youth population for the digital age. This report advocates a dual-track strategy: ensuring universal digital literacy while also accelerating advanced digital skills development through coordinated action from governments, educational institutions, industry, and development organizations.
This new human capital report emphasizes that the places where people grow up, live, and work have a powerful impact on their health, learning, and job prospects. By focusing on homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, it reveals untapped opportunities to improve lives, reduce poverty, and drive long-term economic progress.
Construyendo Ecosistemas Analiticos Gubernamentales En America Latina YEl Caribe
This Spanish translation of Data for Better Government provides a conceptual framework to assess and provide guidance on the government analytics agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, and how the region can harvest the benefits of GovTech investments.
Incentivando O Uso De Dados Para Fortalecer a Administracao Publica
This Handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to strengthen public administration. Covering a range of microdata sources as well as tools and resources for undertaking the analytics, the Handbook allows governments to take a data-informed approach to diagnose and improve how public organizations work.
Governments can boost climate resilience by expanding access to information, promoting insurance, and investing in infrastructure. In South Asia, these actions are key to protecting people. Given limited public resources, the private sector will be key to driving solutions. The book lays out a policy roadmap to help unlock impact.
This report argues that resilience to climate change will ultimately depend on the adaptation decisions of millions of individual households, farms, and firms. The report offers several broad principles to guide policy and proposes specific policy actions to build resilience.
How Governments Can Promote Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa
The report documents the extent to which governments in the Middle East and North Africa currently support children?s healthy physical growth, social-emotional and mental health, and early learning, and mitigate the potential for permanent harm that arises from poverty, maltreatment, and conflict.
Initial teacher education is the first stage in teachers' career-long professional development. This report analyzes how primary school teachers are prepared across the world and identifies lessons and guiding principles that can help improve the quality of teacher preparation mechanisms.
Africa's growing youth population presents an untapped migration potential, but challenges like low economic growth, conflict, and climate change persist.
