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John Fielding,
CEO
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Executive Development Center is a research-based training facility contributing to the sustained growth of companies through training and development of its human resources.
Recent developments worldwide suggest that increased investment in human capital is crucial for sustained productivity and rapid economic growth.
Although its precise contribution is difficult to measure, human capital created through investments in education and the development of skills emerges in studies of economic growth as one of the most significant growth determinants.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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National Human Resources Development: - By the end of 1997, it is expected that legislation and key institutions will be in place for a human resources strategy that promotes individual learning, economic growth and social development.
It is a ten-year global technical support programme designed to strengthen the contribution that cities and towns in developing countries make toward human development, including economic growth, social development, and the reduction of poverty.
These major changes in the way the issues of economic growth, human development and environmental protection are approached can be highlighted through the outcomes of two major United Nations conferences.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The very growth of population, when not accompanied by adequate economic development, brings out the prospect of rising unemployment, further impoverishing the countryside and swelling the drift to the towns and creating human problems of the deepest intensity.
Advocates of the precautionary principle tend to assume that economic growth and development are themselves a threat to public health and environmental protection, yet the rise of industrial society has coincided with a massive explosion of wealth and health that is unprecedented in the history of human civilization.
Technological developments, human shortsightedness, and the blind pursuit of economic growth since the industrial revolution lead to forest destruction, water pollution, acid rain, global warming, and a myriad of ecological crisis.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The third component in the scientific and technological basis for sustainable development is innovatory technologies which will reduce the environmental effects of human activities and thus make it possible for economic growth to continue without causing unacceptable damage.
But all this wealth that humans accumulate directly affect the of Nature - all developments that mark economic growth are parameters of the destruction of the system of life.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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To articulate the material and social benefits of moderate population growth and promote economic development through models which respect the dignity and rights of the individual human person and the family.
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