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Projects in South Asia: Deploy and Utilize and Empower Pillars
FIGURE 6.2 Technology in Word Bank Human Capital–Related Ongoing and Pipeline Projects in South Asia: Deploy and Utilize and Empower Pillars
US$, millions
Deploy and utilize
Skills ($400) • Entrepreneurship ($150) • Digital skills, including TVET ($60) • Medical technology skills ($60) • Entrepreneurship ($50) • Firm technology capability ($70) • Digital skills ($30)
Education ($800) HNP ($600) SPL ($200) Other ($300)
$200 $60 ~$100
Specialized knowledge ($1,200) • R&D ($100) • Innovation ($190) • Higher education STEM ($220) • Medical R&D ($160), innovation ($70) • Infection control ($300) • Agricultural R&D ($50), innovation system ($30) • Digital innovation system ($20) • Indigenous nutrition/NRM innovation ($130)
Empower
Policies and institutions ($300) • Institution for digital education policy learning ($20) • Data governance ($110) • Home-based work policy ($50) • Integrated resilience ($50) • Digital policy institution, policy skills ($60)
$500 $500
• Health emergency response capability ($20)
~$200 ~$200
Source: World Bank study team. Note: Numbers in each column and each row do not necessarily add to their totals because some components can be classified in two categories. HNP = health, nutrition, and population; NRM = natural resource management; R&D = research and development; sPL = social protection and labor; sTEM = science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; TVET = technical and vocational education and training.
