Human Resource Development in Asia: Achievements and Tasks Ahead
Improving the health and level of education of a country’s population is both a means and an end of economic development. The importance of human resource development as a means of promoting economic growth is now well acknowledged, and developing countries have been allocating large amounts of reso...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
1984-01-01
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| Series: | Asian Development Review |
| Online Access: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S011611058400004X |
| Summary: | Improving the health and level of education of a country’s population is both a means and an end of economic development. The importance of human resource development as a means of promoting economic growth is now well acknowledged, and developing countries have been allocating large amounts of resources to education and health programs. This has led to improvements: literacy rates are going up with the extended provision of schooling, crude death rates are declining as a result of better health services, and life expectancy is improving… |
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| ISSN: | 0116-1105 1996-7241 |