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Figure 6.11 Micro Economies; average investment levels as a percentage of<br />

GDP, 1950-63.<br />

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More recently, levels of human capital development have increasingly gained<br />

significance in studies of economic growth. It is widely acknowledged that human<br />

capital development is difficult to define, difficult to measure and even more<br />

difficult with which to make cross country comparison. Here (Figure 6.12) the<br />

World Bank's precedence is followed again 42 , with the total gross primary and<br />

secondary school enrolment ratio taken to indicate some roughly comparable intercountry<br />

levels of economically significant investment in people 43 .<br />

42 ibid.<br />

43 In "Evidence from Cross-Economy Regressions of per capita income growth", (ibid., p. 48) the<br />

authors argue that: "Our measure of educational attainment are primary and secondary enrolment<br />

rates in 1960, the area of human capital accumulation in which the HPAE's (Hi'gh-performing Asian<br />

économies) showed a substantial différence from other low- and middle-income économies. "<br />

312

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