World Bank’s Human Capital Index 2020 Warns Of Pandemic Impacts On Human Capital

Devex: World Bank warns of COVID-19 toll on human capital
“On Wednesday, the World Bank released its latest installment of the ‘Human Capital Index,’ a country-by-country ranking that translates shortfalls in health and education into potential productivity losses at a national level. The 2020 version of the index describes the world of human capital before COVID-19 and could offer its greatest value as a marker of what has been lost…” (Igoe, 9/16).

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