How Structure of Production Determines the Demand for Human Capital

How Structure of Production Determines the Demand for Human Capital
Author: Indermit Singh Gill
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1991
Genre: Human capital
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To promote gender equity, expansion of the services sector should be encouraged. But this runs counter to the World Bank and IMF policy of encouraging the production of tradable goods (produced mainly in agriculture and less so in industry) to service debt. So direct government intervention is needed to promote investment in women's human capital.

Gains in the Education of Peruvian Women, 1940 to 1980

Gains in the Education of Peruvian Women, 1940 to 1980
Author: Elizabeth M. King
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1990
Genre: Economic development
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What determines girls' educational attainment? School quality (measured by the number of textbooks and teachers) changes in attitudes and better economic opportunities for educated women ; parents (especially mothers') years of schooling and occupations ; and the opportunity cost of sending a girl to school - especially in rural families, or when mothers must hold jobs outside the home.