Among the natural resources which can be called upon in national plans for development possibly the most important
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Among the natural resources which can be called upon in national plan for development, possibly the most important is human labour; without productive labour force, including effective leadership and intelligent middle management, no amount of foreign assistance or natural wealth can ensure successful development and modernisation. One essential factor is usually overlooked or ignored. The forgotten factor is the role of women. Development will be handicapped as long as women remain second-class citizens, uneducated, without any voice in family or community decisions, without legal or economic status, married when they are still practically children, and thenceforth producing one baby after another, often only to see half of them die before they are of school age. We can enhance development by improving ‘woman power’ by giving women opportunity to develop themselves.
The most important natural resource for national development is
A.human labour.
B.effective leadership.
C.intelligent middle management.
D.foreign assistance.
Correct Option: A (human labour)
Answer:
human labour
Explanation:
Among the natural resources which can be called upon in national plans for development, possibly the most
important is human labour. Since the English language suffers from a certain weakness in its ability to describe
groups composed of both male and female members, this is usually described as "manpower".
2. Without a productive labour force, including effective leadership and intelligent middle management, no
amount of foreign assistance or of natural wealth can ensure successful development and modernization.
3. The manpower for development during the next quarter century will come from the world's present
population of infants, children and adolescents. But we are not sure that they will be equal to task. Will they
have the health, the education, the skills, the socio-cultural attitudes essential for the responsibilities of
development?
4. For far too many of them the answer is no. The reason is basic. A child's most critical years, with regard to
physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development, are those before he reaches five years of age. During
those critical formative years he is cared for almost exclusively by his mother and in many parts of the world
the mother may not have the capacity to raise a superior child. She is incapable of doing so by reason of her
own poor health, her ignorance and her lack of status and recognition of social and legal rights, of economic
party of independence. One essential factor has been overlooked and ignored. The forgotten factor is the role of
women. Development will be handicapped as long as women remain second class citizen, uneducated without
any voice in family or community, decisions without legal or economic status, married when they are still
practically children, and henceforth producing one baby after another, often to see half of them die before they
are of school age.