20th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last capter general theiry money inetrest emplymen) asked Economists to take hipocrati oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists did the opposite. Whats not understandable is how educatirs failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered vilages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical viage asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and 2001, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largelu built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that gridd infarstructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There re at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bitwas checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a taiwanese american to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

5.6 human capital grows generations

 

An Open Letter to the World: We Should Care About Human Capital

Human Capital Champions

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We are coming together to send this urgent message.

If we want a better world—one that is stable, more prosperous and equitable, where people’s potential is fulfilled—countries need to start investing more effectively in their people today.

Tremendous advances have been made in the past generation. Never in history has such a large share of people survived childhood, gone to school, become literate, escaped poverty, gone into the work force or lived so long.  But these very gains—and the fact that change is possible—make today’s status quo all the more unjustifiable.

  • More than half the world’s population cannot access essential health services, with almost 100 million people pushed into extreme poverty every year by health costs.
  • In the world’s poorest countries, four out of five poor people are not covered by a social safety net, leaving them extremely vulnerable.
  • An estimated 5.4 million children under 5 years of age died in 2017, mostly of preventable causes. Newborns account for around half of those deaths.
  • Over 750 million adults are illiterate, their lifetime productivity severely diminished by a poor education.
  • More than 260 million children are not in primary or secondary school. And another quarter of a billion children cannot read or write despite having gone to school.  If they formed a country, it would be the third largest country in the world.
  • Nearly one in four young children around the world are undernourished (stunted), their life prospects permanently limited by an accumulation of adversity in their earliest years.        

Our fear is that a whole generation will not be equipped to reach its full potential and compete in the economy of the future. The nature of work is changing rapidly across the globe, as are demands for higher order skills. Yet half a billion young people in developing countries today are underemployed or in insecure jobs.  If young people don’t have the opportunities to realize their aspirations, we risk more fragility and conflict across the globe—with incalculable economic costs.

It is time to recognize that investing in people is investing in inclusive growth.  One additional year of schooling raises a person’s earnings by 8 to 10 percent. In some places, the returns are as high as 22 percent. The median benefit to cost ratio for interventions that reduce stunting in the first 24 months of life is equal to $18 of benefit for every $1 spent.  If there were gender equality in earnings, human capital wealth could increase by 21.7 percent globally.

The message for countries, economies, leaders and concerned citizens across our interconnected world is clear: if we don’t turn our attention toward better and more strategic investments in people today, countries and economies will pay a steep price down the road.

There is powerful evidence that with a big push, progress can happen quickly. We can harness lessons from Malawi, where the stunting rate has come down ten percentage points to 37 percent in only a few years. Or from Vietnam, where learning outcomes have skyrocketed in reading, math and science.  In both these cases, success was rooted in focused leadership, engaged stakeholders, and integrated government-wide approaches.

We hope the Human Capital Project—and the new Human Capital Index which links human capital outcomes to future productivity—will fuel momentum for action and put us more firmly on the path to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

We invite you to stand with us as we call for more and better investments in people. By doing so, we can transform the futures of nations, families and generations whose dreams are only matched by their will to achieve them.

Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister, Ethiopia

Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP

Aliko Dangote, Chair, President and Founder, Dangote Foundation

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Sir Chris Hohn, Co-Founder, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Douglas Peterson, President and CEO, S&P Global      

Sir Fazle Abed, Founder & Chair, BRAC

Frans van Houten, CEO, Philips

Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF

Hugh Evans, Chair, Global Citizen

Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS

His Majesty King Letsie III, Lesotho

Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State, International Development, UK

Dr. Rajiv. J. Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Shinichi Kitaoka, President, JICA

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore

Youssou N’Dour, Musician, Senegal

 

This letter was originally published in the Financial Times.

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