PSY 145 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation, Human Capital, Psych
Document Summary
A saarc 2000 proposal: there is no need for a concerted human development plan as broad as in the. Saarc region, with 1. 2 billion people in seven countries: bangladesh, bhutan, India, maldives, nepal, pakistan and sri lanka: the country has an average real per capita income of about ,260, compared to the developed countries ",860. Many people in this area still live in "total poverty," without the prospect of meeting minimum dietary requirements and other basic needs, including 78% of the population in bangladesh, 40% in india and 28% in pakistan. Established as a regional cooperative organization in 1985, saarc has accomplished little in its first ten years of existence, despite many hopes and great promises: perhaps more distressing are the region"s grim indices of human growth, except in. The levels of literacy are poor (usually below 40 per cent)
