Human Capital Development in South Asia

Human Capital Development in South Asia
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9292610392

Human capital is an important factor for economic growth in South Asia. Between 1981 and 2010, human capital contributed about 22% of annual gross domestic product per worker growth in India. During the same period, it contributed around 21% in Bangladesh, and 16% in Sri Lanka. However, education and skills remain the binding constraint. Raising the quality of education and skills in South Asia's workforce can play a critical role in catching up to the level of development of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and other successful Southeast Asian economies. This study reviews the development of human capital in South Asia and analyzes contributing factors to human development including policies and strategies that countries in South Asia follow.

Strategic Human Capital Development and Management in Emerging Economies

Strategic Human Capital Development and Management in Emerging Economies
Author: Bhattacharya, Anshuman
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522519750

The analysis and implementation of effective human resources strategies creates opportunities for organizational success. By utilizing such intangible assets, businesses can gain competitive advantage and enhance productivity. Strategic Human Capital Development and Management in Emerging Economies is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the intersection of globalization, organizational behavior, and human capital management in the context of developing nations. Covering a range of business-oriented topics, such as job proficiency, corporate social responsibility, and burnout syndrome, this book is ideally designed for managers, researchers, academics, professionals, and graduate students interested in sustainable management of human behavior in modern organizations.

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND GROWTH A new look through Human Capital as you designed and shown

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND GROWTH A new look through Human Capital as you designed and shown
Author: DR SANTANU RAY CHAUDHURI
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This book tries to portray the link between economic inequality and long-run growth via human capital and the major take of the book is to analyze the growth panorama through the lens of the ‘idea’ or ‘knowledge’ generation’ which is eventually considered as the ‘engine of growth’ being fueled by productivity enhancement through the innovations of new technologies. But this is not the end of the story as it involves enormous controversies. Simply the controversy started with the basic question --- why are some countries richer than other countries? To put it in another way, why growth is a miracle, why it is not driven homogeneously for economies, or whether the economies would converge or not? Another issue is predominantly crucial, that is, economic inequality in the process of economic expansion. In this context, the present book has given emphasis in explaining the selective growth theories starting from classical foundation to new growth theories including their inner implications in the passage of history of economic growth. In consequence, the vast landscape of theoretical contours about political philosophies and model analyses of economic growth including diverse generic versions of the said link between economic expansion and distribution are explained, and, the most important feature of the textbook is that the link is explored by focusing on a single factor, human capital. The prime emphasis of the present textbook is to look at the link between growth, inequality and human capital accumulation and their resultant outcomes in a new way as New Look by substantiating the issue through empirical analyses relating to the Indian States. The whole journey of the book consists of the political philosophy, models and empirics, the trio, without which the all-around venture of economic theories would become incomplete. For this reason, the whole perspective of empirical analysis is done to keep in mind the necessities of the learners such that they should not feel awkward with a set of data. It is, in that context, the empirical and structural issues are taken up to make the issues distinctively clearer with the presumption that the whole perspective would become, then, more delightful and easy to digest.

OECD Insights Human Capital How what you know shapes your life

OECD Insights Human Capital How what you know shapes your life
Author: Keeley Brian
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007-02-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264029095

This book explores the impact of education and learning on our societies and lives and examines what countries are doing to provide education and training to support people throughout their lives.

How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820

How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9264214267

This book presents the first systematic evidence on long-term trends in global well-being since 1820 for 25 major countries and 8 regions in the world covering more than 80% of the world’s population.

Research in Economic History

Research in Economic History
Author: Christopher Hanes
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839091819

Research in Economic History is a well-established publication presenting influential work by leading researchers in the field of economic history, including economists, historians, and demographers.

Long-run Growth, Social Institutions and Living Standards

Long-run Growth, Social Institutions and Living Standards
Author: Neri Salvadori
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781007764

This engaging book contains a set of original contributions to the much-debated issues of long-run economic growth in relation to institutional and social progress. It explores the mutual relationships between living standards, social habits, education an

Labor in an Islamic Setting

Labor in an Islamic Setting
Author: Necmettin Kizilkaya
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317108523

The Islamic labor market rests on the principles of the free market exchange of Islamic economics. Regrettably, the latter has failed to keep pace with the rapidly growing academic and professional developments of the former. Much of the published work within Islamic economics is idealistic if not radically ideological with little relevance to the Islamic labor market, leaving students of Islamic economics without a coherent body of economic theory to understand the practical objectives of Shariah that gives a sense of direction to the developments in this field. Drawing upon received sources of goals of Shariah, the authors present an independent academic work which: Emphasizes the common conceptual grounds of labor market behavior shared by the objectives of Shariah approach as well as the conventional approach to economics. Adopts standard tools of contemporary economics to explain the industrial relations. Extends the conventional scope of the labor market and forces of the labor market under the umbrella of Shariah. Enables readers and practitioners of Islamic economics to make economic sense of Shariah compliance and human resource development. Explains how the economics of Shariah is liable to offer moral guidance and a sense of direction to regulators and practitioners of the Islamic labor market. Labor in an Islamic Setting will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics, middle and senior management in both the western and the Islamic business communities, researchers and policy makers.

Accounting for Services

Accounting for Services
Author: Daan Marks
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9052603367

The most intriguing question about Indonesia's economic development during the twentieth century is why the country's growth performance has been so erratic and displayed such a high degree of discontinuity. This is connected with the fundamental question about the nature of long-run economic development in Indonesia. So far the economic historiography of Indonesia has been less systematic than what the available source material would permit. Indonesia is exceptionally well endowed with rich statistical sources, which carry the potential of supporting a rigorous and systematic quantitative approach to vital questions concerning the economic growth performance in the long run. This book takes such an approach and presents new estimates for the long-run growth of the Indonesian service sector, and analyses the role of the various service sectors in economic development. Linking empirical and theoretical analysis in a creative fashion, Daan Marks provides a rich and original contribution to our understanding of the economic history of Indonesia. He shows that the service sector has played a crucial role in Indonesia's economic development. Or in other words, to fully understand Indonesia's economic development path sevices need to be accounted for.