A Policy Agenda to Boost Human Capital in Bulgaria

Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Yet despite substantial progress, significant gaps in human capital investment are leaving the world poorly prepared for what lies ahead. The World Bank Group has launched the Human Capital Project (HCP) to mobilize efforts to address these gaps. The goal of the HCP is a world in which all children arrive at school ready to learn, the time spent in school translates into better learning, and they can grow up to live and work as healthy, skilled, and productive adults. The Human Capital Project (HCP) is a global effort to accelerate more and better investments in people for greater equity and economic growth. The project aims at providing each country yearly high-quality information on the state of human capital by using relevant data from administrative records and national and international surveys on education and health outcomes of its child and adult population. The goal is to nurture a global and national conversation on why countries need to invest in all human capital dimensions. This is done by an in-depth analysis of the reasons why early health care and education prepare children to succeed as adults in a rapidly changing world, and more generally, prepare nations for reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity in the years to come.