This report examines lessons from the COVID-19 response in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus for building resilient human development systems. It highlights how crises affect education, health, and...
This work aims to offer a strategic approach to policymakers when undertaking digital transformation reforms in education and skills development systems, with a focus on “how.” It builds on the World Bank...
This work aims to offer a strategic approach to policymakers when undertaking digital transformation reforms in education and skills development systems, with a focus on “how.” It builds on the World Bank...
This work aims to offer a strategic approach to policymakers when undertaking digital transformation reforms in education and skills development systems, with a focus on “how.” It builds on the World Bank...
This report, “Digitalization of Human Development Services in Europe and Central Asia,” provides a summary of the current state and strategic approach for the digital transformation of Human Development...
Georgia has grown its economy well and remained committed to advancing the human development agenda over the last decade, but several challenges persist. The education sector in Georgia poses substantial...
This paper offers three key contributors to the excising literature. Firstly, it reviews the use of technology across each phase of delivering social protection and labor (SPL) benefits and services. Secondly...
This report looks at resilience through national health system lenses and provides lessons to strengthen health systems for future shocks. The findings are based on case studies from five countries in...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, education systems had to redeploy inputs typically used in schools to remote education. This significantly reduced average student learning, with disadvantaged students...
This paper explores the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to learn lessons on how to build the resilience of their social protection...
Risk and uncertainty are on the rise, and countries across Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are not immune from it. The region is being hit by crises, conflicts, and continued uncertainty that are negatively...
This report outlines Azerbaijan's human capital challenges and progress. By age eighteen, children reach only fifty-eight percent of their potential due to education, health, and social protection issues...
This report provides an overview of human capital in Armenia, focusing on education, health, and social protection. It highlights improvements in early childhood education, vocational training, maternal...
Georgia’s economy has grown significantly over the past decade, leading to dramatic reductions in poverty and increases in the middle class. New challenges are emerging that may threaten the country’s...
The objective of this Human Capital Review is to support ongoing and future reforms by assessing human capital outcomes and related delivery challenges. This Human Capital Review builds upon the strategic...
Strong human capital foundations are essential for boosting productivity and addressing challenges associated with aging populations, economic diversification, and recurrent shocks and crises. Human capital...