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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Main Author: K. L. Luthra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 1984-01-01
Series:Asian Development Review
Online Access:https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S011611058400004X
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description 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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