5 Human development issues and policies

5 Human development issues and policies This chapter looks at the four main family sizethat receives most views, and its implications for areas of Human development attention. development strategy. education, health, nutrition and A decade or two ago, there was Recent progress fertilityand at the links between a widespread view that trained them. In each, it considers the people were the key to develop- The major educational progress causes and effects of poverty and ment. Universal literacy was a of the past two decades reflects various ways of breaking its grip political objective in many coun- heavy investment by developing on the poor and their children. tries, but money spent on primary countries. Their total public Ten years ago this chapter would schooling was often regarded as expenditure on education rose in have been written very different- diverted from activities that would real terms (in 1976 dollars) from ly.

found rates of return comparing very favorably with investment in other sectors. It is, of course, im-possible to predict which places will offer scope for improved farm-ing techniques in 10 years' time, when children leave school. In some, effects on farm productivity may be low. But given past progress in agricultural research, it is prob-

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