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  • Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences – Ghana (English)

    Ghana has made deliberate efforts to invest in health and education in the last 60 years, which has resulted in substantial gains in both economic growth and human capital outcomes. This case study examines...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 151019 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo

  • Changing norms about gender inequality in education : evidence from Bangladesh (English)

    Using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women, this paper examines norms about gender equality in education for children and adults. Among the main findings are that gender education...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4404 Document Date: November 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Das, Maitreyi Bordia

  • The limited job prospects of displaced workers : evidence from two cities in China (English)

    The economic restructuring in China over the past decade has resulted in displacement of millions of workers who had been employed in the state sector. This has posed tremendous challenges economically...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 37889 Document Date: October 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Betcherman,Gordon,Blunch,Niels-Hugo

  • Multinational enterprises and training revisited: do international standards matter? (English)

    Several studies have examined the determinants of training in developing countries but only few have paid attention to the potential importance of international standards such as ISO 9000 or ISO 14000...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 32546 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Castro Carvalho,Ana Paula

  • Asymmetries in the union wage premium in Ghana (English)

    The article uses a matched employer-employee data set for Ghana and adopts a quantile regression approach that allows the effects of unionization to vary across the conditional wage distribution. It is...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77469 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Verner,Dorte

  • The World Bank economic review 18 (2) (English)

    Do macroeconomics crises always slow human capital accumulations? By Nobert R. Schady. The distribution of income shocks during crises: an application of quantile analysis to Mexico, 1992-95, by William...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30182 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cranfield,John Andrea Lionel,Cunningham, Wendy V.,Hertel,Thomas W.,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Ivanic,Maros,Kaufman, Daniel,Kraay,Aart C.,Maloney,William F.,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Ng,Francis K. T.,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Preckel,Paul V.,Schady, Nobert R.,Verner,Dorte

  • The informal sector revisited : a synthesis across space and time (English)

    The concept of the informal sector (IS) has recently received widespread and growing attention. Indeed, it may be fair to talk about a re-emergence of the concept in the debate related to social protection...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 23308 Document Date: July 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Canagarajah,Roy S.,Raju,Dhushyanth

  • Revisiting the link between poverty and child labor - the Ghanaian experience (English)

    The link between poverty, and child labor has traditionally been regarded as well established. But recent research has questioned the validity of this link, claiming that poverty is not a main determinant...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2488 Document Date: November 30, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Verner,Dorte