Poverty and the development of human resources: regional perspectives. A background paper for world development report 1980
Bussink, W.; Davies, D.; Grawe, R.; Kavalsky, B.; Pfeffermann, G.P.
World Bank Staff Working Paper, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 406: 193
1980
Document Number: 378591
The treatment varies according to the special conditions in each of the five regions studied: East Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East plus North Africa. W.C.F. Bussink in: Reflections on socioeconomic development and poverty in East Asia, reflects on the role of economic growth and of specific policy interventions in the reversal of poverty in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Land resources and the speed and structure of economic growth are the factors which are particularly singled out. D.G. Davies in:Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusses on selected human development issues which include the relation between higher and middle level manpower and institutional development and contrast this with the human development of the poor. R. Grawe in:Human Development in South Asia, emphasizes population growth and the status of women and stresses the efficiency of education and health programmes and the necessity for basic programmes with a large impact on the poor. B.G. Kavalsky pays attention to fertility and the disparity, especially in access to education in the Middle East and North Africa between prospects for males and females. The slowness of human institutional development is also described. G.P. Pfeffermann in some aspects of human development in Latin America (with special emphasis on education), deals with the difficulty of reaching the poorest groups with human development programmes.