(BQ) Part 2 book “Economic development” has contents: Human capital - Education and health in economic development, agricultural transformation and rural development, the environment and development, development policymaking and the roles of market, state, and civil society, and other contents. | Human Capital: Education and Health in Economic Development 8 My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. —Gary Becker, Nobel laureate in economics What makes for a good health system? What makes a health system fair? And how do we know whether a health system is performing as well as it could? These questions are the subject of public debate in most countries around the world. —Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general, World Health Organization, 2000 [Education] can add to the value of production in the economy and also to the income of the person who has been educated. But even with the same level of income, a person may benefit from education—in reading, communicating, arguing, in being able to choose in a more informed way, in being taken more seriously by others and so on. —Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999 The slow improvement in the health status of our people has been a matter of great concern. There is no denying the fact that we have not paid adequate attention to this dimension of development thus far. —Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, 2005 The Central Roles of Education and Health Education and health are basic objectives of development; they are important ends in themselves. Health is central to well-being, and education is essential for a satisfying and rewarding life; both are fundamental to the broader notion of expanded human capabilities that lie at the heart of the meaning of development (see Chapter 1). At the same time, education plays a key role in the ability of a developing country to absorb modern technology and to develop the capacity for self-sustaining growth and development. Moreover, health is a prerequisite for increases in productivity, and successful education relies on adequate health as well. Thus both health and education can .
