Open AccessBashir Ahmad Khilji. Sixty Years of Human Resource Development in Pakistan. Government of Pakistan, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. Islamabad: HEC Printing Press. 2011. 283 pages. Price not given.
Author(s) -
Rizwan Ul Haq
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v50i3pp.262-263
Subject(s) - sanitation , literacy rate , human resources , commission , human development index , economic growth , government (linguistics) , human development (humanity) , population , literacy , development economics , developing country , china , index (typography) , standard of living , position (finance) , business , political science , economics , engineering , management , sociology , law , demography , linguistics , philosophy , environmental engineering , world wide web , computer science , finance
Human resource development (HRD) occupies a central positionin the advancement of a society. It is obvious from the historicalexperience of industrialised countries that developing human capacity isessential for a self-reliant and self-sustaining pattern of growth.Almost all Asian countries, including Pakistan, continue to search foradditional appropriate strategies to respond to the rapid changes in theglobal economy. Unfortunately, despite registering a satisfactory rateof economic growth, Pakistan’s progress on the human front lags behindin terms of key indicators such as literacy, primary-level participationrate, basic health facilities, population welfare, water and sanitation,etc. Pakistan ranked 145th out of 179 countries in the world on thehuman development index in 2011.