Human Capital Development in Africa

Lant Pritchett, Jere Behrman, Germano Mwabu, Adrienne Lucas and Gerald Ipapa

Working Papers from African Economic Research Consortium

Abstract: The collaborative research project on Human Capital Development in Africa sought to generate evidence on the challenges of building human capital for accelerated inclusive development as well as address key constraints on human capital accumulation, such as weak public financial management (PFM) and service delivery systems (SDM). In addition, this collaborative research project sought to provide policy reforms that would enable Africas young people to grow up with optimal health and equipped with the right skills to compete in the digitizing global economy. The project involved both framework papers and country case studies. The framework papers sought to investigate broad, and crosscutting issues around human capital development to improve the capability of the continent (and its policy makers) to confront human capital development challenges, and leverage the opportunities they present, as it confronts its development challenges. The country case studies sought to inform policy makers and development practitioners on human capital development in Africa from the viewpoint of individual countries and/or sub-regions s (or group of countries). To assist policy makers and other actors improve generation and management of knowledge on Africas human capital and address key constraints on human capital accumulation, such as weak public financial management (PFM) and service delivery systems (SDS), the AERC intends to disseminate the findings from the above studies to senior African policy makers through its flagship dissemination vehicle, the Senior Policy Seminar (SPS)

Date: 2024-04-10
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