At least part of the effort toward attainment of health and education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could come from improvements inefficiency of delivery mechanisms. Hence, it is important to know which countries - or which regions within countries - are able to attain higher MDG outcomes...

This paper has two main objectives. First, it assesses and measures the gaps inthe stock of human capital across the world. It presents how effectivelydifferent regions are improving their stock of human capital, and how long itwill take for developing countries to catch up with the current...