This paper provides a guide to the new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI), situating its methodology in the context of the development accounting literature. The HCI combines indicators of health and education into a measure of the human capital that a child born today can expect to achieve by her 18th birthday, given the risks of poor education and health that prevail in the country where she lives. The HCI is measured in units of productivity relative to a benchmark of complete education and full health, and ranges from 0 to 1. A value ofon the HCI indicates that a child born today can expect to be onlypercent as productive as a future worker as she would be if she enjoyed complete education and full health.

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世界银行人力资本指数：指南

本文为新的世界银行人力资本指数（HCI）提供了指南，并在发展会计文献的背景下提出了其方法。HCI结合了健康和教育指标，以衡量今天出生的孩子在其18岁生日之前可以实现的人力资本水平，因为该国普遍存在教育和健康不佳的风险。HCI以相对于完全受教育和充分健康的基准的生产率为单位进行度量，范围从0到1。HCI的值表示今天出生的孩子可以期望的未来生产率仅为未来工人的生产率。她是否会接受完整的教育和充分的健康。