ABSTRACT
In the chapters in the previous section, we examined fundamental action areas for countries wishing to accelerate the pace of economic growth and human development. We considered the critical need, for example, for greater attention to human capital accumulation. Universal primary education and progress toward universal secondary education are important benchmarks for future advances in growth and development; tertiary education, we saw, must be geared to turning out a larger number of research scientists and technicians. The creation of an efficient and honest civil service must also be faced as one specific goal of a country’s education and training policies. These efforts require that the central
government take an active role in setting priorities, in mapping future projects carefully, in monitoring results, and in devoting sufficient public resources to all levels of education and professional training so that the priorities which have been set have a reasonable chance of being achieved.
