Need to invest in people
Pakistan has registered another poor showing in the World Bank's Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ), ranking 130 out of 174 nations and well behind the average for lower-middle-income countries. The index, an expanded measure that reflects not just childhood survival and schooling but also adult health, nutritional status and learning quality, now pegs Pakistan's productivity potential at a mere 0.35 on a scale where 1 represents full health and complete education. This poor showing reveals the extent of the disastrous state of........
