Sola schola et sanitate: Human capital as the root cause and priority for international development?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1532, 2009, Pages 3031-3047

  Lutz, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

'quality' dimension in population analysis; Education; Health; Human capital; Root cause of development

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 70350452800     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0156     Document Type: Article

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