The importance of such human investment is also dawning on an unlikely business sector: China's threadbare state-owned enterprises.
Capital both human and investment is highly mobile, and it migrates all the time to the places where the opportunities are larger and the burdens are lower.
In order to integrate MapReduce, most enterprises need to develop an entirely new skill base, and the human capital investment will quickly outweigh the infrastructure investment.
The role of human capital in investment decision making is greater than just providing a source for investment capital and retirement savings.
For example, the literacy levels of people aged 52-60 when tested in 1995 are used to estimate the competencies of 17-25-year-olds in 1960, and hence the human-capital investment that had just been made in the course of that cohort's education.
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The human resources development investment of the five country projects on staff of national and local institutions will allow for replication of interventions and thus multiply the number of young people who will be reached after the BEAR project is completed.
The evidence shows systematic under-investment in human capital, inadequate attention to institutional capital, and over-exploitation of natural capital.
"It's venture capital for artistic, intellectual and social entrepreneurs, an investment in human potential, " Socolow explains over an excellent lunch at Manhattan's tony Lespinasse restaurant.
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Public education is an investment in human and social capital.
Deep down, Reagan believed that America offered bountiful opportunity for the average man when government lightened its grip and allowed the magic of human creativity and capital investment to work.
While this inevitably introduces an element of human judgment to the investment process, Dalio insists it is still driven by the rules-based framework he has built up over thirty years.
While this is a common problem among traders, I see a similar trait playing out across our great land in the Human Resource departments and Investment Committees that are indirectly responsible for the fiduciary responsibilities of a vast majority of retirement plans and pensions.
You should focus on leading by example, with investment in both human and organizational capacity building.
Girls' education is a proven 'best investment' for human, social, and economic development, she said.
Rather, they must attack the root of the malaise, namely unemployment and inefficient use of capital, and better deployment of human resources, technology and investment funds.
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The inside title page bore the legend: Devoted to Investment Finance and the Human Side of Business.
It was the Soviet threat that motivated investment in education and human capital.
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In May 1997 the U.S. imposed strong economic sanctions against Myanmar for human rights violations, banning all investment and trade activities.
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Public education is a major investment of financial and human resources and no country can afford to have a system which is not accountable.
Most economists and career development professionals will agree that spending your time and your money investing in human capital is a really good investment.
As you immerse yourself in 2013 planning, plan for a high return on the investment of time and human resources associated with your giving and volunteer program by allocating appropriate dollars to fuel these efforts.
But the Nepad formula of partnership with developing countries, stress on good governance and human rights and encouragement of foreign investment was adopted by the continent's heads of state at the inaugural meeting of the African Union in Durban in July.
"Particularly more investment in infrastructure is absolutely essential to get rid of some of the current (traffic) bottlenecks, more investment in education to improve human skills and allow industry and other sectors to move up the value chain, " Zavadjil said.
Yet the adult human investors had the clearest idea of the investment window and the most significant incentive: Their reputations were at stake.
But this incontinent gush is nothing compared to an e-mail sent by an extremely powerful person at JP Morgan encouraging his investment banking team to be more human.
Few investment advisors place much emphasis on human capital.
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The rejection of investment and of Western approaches to human rights was certainly not in step with the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) being championed by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
There is also, thirdly, an economic literature that emerged, began to emerge actually in the 1950s and '60s but came full flower in the '70s and '80s about human capital and about the returns to individual investment, having to do with public education, especially higher education.
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