The Netherlands has adopted as its manpower policy the full employment of its human resources in an expanding economy. Activities which have been particularly successful include regional development, supplementary employment programs, social employment, and stabilization of seasonal employment in construction. Additional efforts are needed to link…

An evaluation of the effects of educational expansion on economic output between 1890 and 1960 shows (1) expansion at the secondary and doctorate levels was positively related to economic output since 1933; and (2) no effect of these or other levels of schooling on economic output before 1928 was manifested. (AOS)

Labor force development is crucial to economic growth in India. Improvements in the higher education system, especially funding mechanisms, are needed to increase the nation's competitiveness. (SK)

The economic development goals of 12 South Asian countries and the means used to meet them through higher education are examined. It is concluded that the trend has brought greater educational opportunities, growing university involvement with the world outside academe, and possible over-reliance on the Japanese model. (MSE)

IMHE-Info is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme. This issue includes: (1) Regional Engagement: The Future for Higher Education?; and (2) Notes from Australia. IMHE News, publications of interest and upcoming events are included.

This series of reports explores a statewide solution to the work force problems in Texas. The previous report, A Call to Action, described the current status of the Texas work force and introduced the concept of the Human Investment System as a means to improve that status by making human investment and people-serving programs and services in…

A review of the connection between education, training, and employment culminates in four recommendations: a comprehensive approach towards economic and social development; re-allocation of resources in favour of basic education; linking post-basic education to the needs of society through recurrent education; and stressing intellectual…

Controversy between two opposing factions have confused rural development policy formulation. Infrastructure advocates believe that the improvement of highways and sewer systems, as well as the provision of industrial park sites and industrial recruitment, are the keys to successful rural economic growth. Human resource development advocates…

In May 1987 a regional workshop was organized in Japan under the technical assistance program of the Asian Development Bank with the collaboration of the Asian and Pacific Skill Development Programme of the International Labour Organisation and the support of the Ministry of Labor of the government of Japan. The workshop addressed the major issues…

After the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, the educational and economic policies of the People's Republic of China changed dramatically. From 1966 to 1976, the central concern of the Cultural Revolution was the distribution of wealth and power. The primary educational goal of this period was to transform the attitudes and thinking of the Chinese…

Educational issues need reexamining, according to this author, to find the proper role for education in a new international economic order (NIEO). In the first part of this essay, the author questions older theories of education and development--which saw education as furthering national development by supplying trained manpower--and discusses…

In this publication, one of a series dealing with economic and social development, references to the literature on human resource development have been organized under nine major subject headings: human resources in economic development, economics of human resources, manpower requirements, rational utilization of human resources, the strategies of…

This book contains the proceedings of a conference, held at the American University of Beirut in December, 1967, at which the problems and possibilities of planning the development and application of modern science and technology in developing countries were discussed, with particular reference to the Arab World and Turkey. In these countries…

States that, in countries where industrialization is underway, governments must identify occupations for which skill training is required, monitor the relevance of training, and provide incentives to attract and retain people in important occupations. Discusses issues raised by manpower planning and development as well as measures that governments…

Using data from a national sample (n=716) of American business associations we examine the prevalence of workforce development activities among associations. This study examines the relationship between the level of workforce development services provided in the organization, organizational characteristics, economic development and partnerships.…