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Human capital is about the innate power workers have. It is about their knowledge, skills and insights, which can’t be sold or bought. Scottish economist Adam Smith was one of the first to recognize ...

At the 2023 Annual Meetings Human Capital Ministerial Conclave, 33 countries from the World Bank’s Human Capital Network considered how to connect people to good jobs and how to empower entrepreneurs ...

America is having a collective freakout about jobs—specifically, that soon AI will do everything and leave everyone unemployable. This concern is not necessarily misplaced, but it is better understood ...

11:19 What countries can do in the long term to be better prepared WB Expert: Human capital is what some people refer to as wealth embodied in people. And what I mean by that is it's the ...

Do companies disclose enough information about investments in their workforces? Not according to the Working Group on Human Capital Accounting Disclosure, a group of ten academics that includes former ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred the government of Laos and some businesses to adopt digital reforms, but Laos’s digitalization lags compared to the rest of Southeast Asia due to the high cost of the ...