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By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
05 August 2007






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One-week-old Dastgeer lies on a footpath as his father Shakeel Khan begs with his other son Saleem, right, outside a shrine in Bangalore, India



South Asia is on a high economic growth path, but the Asian Development Bank warns that the region lags far behind in education and healthcare. A recent ADB report says this could undermine the region's competitiveness. Anjana Pasricha has more from New Delhi.


The Asian Development Bank says education and health care in South Asia are the worst in the world, except for Sub-Saharan Africa.


The bank says high economic growth in recent years in countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh has excluded too many people, and has failed to reduce poverty significantly.


A director in ADB's South Asia Department in Manila, Frederick Roche, says the quality of education needs to be improved at all levels, particularly in rural areas.


He says the region is not producing the number of educated people demanded by its growing economies. India, for example has only 12,000 training and vocational institutes, compared to half a million in China.


"The region now stands poised 3 to take advantage for tremendous opportunities for growth," said Roche. "But the educational institutions of secondary and tertiary level in India are not able to produce the number of graduates which the market is presently demanding, and there are deficiencies in vocational and skills training throughout the region."


The report also underlines new health challenges faced by the region. It says the incidence of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes 4 is increasing due to changing lifestyles and urbanization.


Health specialists at the bank say diseases like diabetes are affecting people at a younger age in countries like India than they do in Western countries. They say this could have a serious impact on labor 5 productivity.


The ADB is calling on governments to devote more resources to both education and healthcare.


Frederick Roche says the region has a "window of opportunity" to make sure its working-age population has the skills required by its growing economies.


"If that working-age population has the appropriate human capital, by that I mean not only skills as a result of education, but also physical health and vitality 6, [then] you have an opportunity there for an even greater acceleration 7 of growth," he added.


The ADB's concerns about a lack of education have been echoed by India's thriving private sector 8. Businessmen here say they are rapidly running out of people with the right skills and training that are needed if their companies are to grow.



n.小路,人行道
  • Owners who allow their dogs to foul the footpath will be fined.主人若放任狗弄脏人行道将受处罚。
  • They rambled on the footpath in the woods.他俩漫步在林间蹊径上。
n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣
  • The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
  • They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
a.摆好姿势不动的
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
n.糖尿病
  • In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者,医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
  • Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.活力,生命力,效力
  • He came back from his holiday bursting with vitality and good health.他度假归来之后,身强体壮,充满活力。
  • He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年。
n.加速,加速度
  • All spacemen must be able to bear acceleration.所有太空人都应能承受加速度。
  • He has also called for an acceleration of political reforms.他同时呼吁加快政治改革的步伐。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
学英语单词
1-anthrylamine
adenomammectomy
aggregate fund in flow out flow
aibs
alyx
amount of precipitation
analysis of stomach
area pattern
backfeed
black rat snake
cancellation of adoption
Castelluccio del Sauri
ch'ang tzu
comitragedy
cross-reaction
cross-road
culture-flask
deloach
derganil
dual basing-point system
Edline
electric resistance humidifier
equitable conversion
equitization
factor modulus
feminine product
fenbufen
ferric pyrophosphate
field rivetting
first party dma
flanged hose coupling
flapstop
floruits
fog quenching
fractalizes
fusiform excision
fuzzy decision-tree
Good lenses, bad frames
group reinforcement
haubner
Hognestad's syndrome
honey granulation
husker with hydraulic roll-engagement
hyetal map
ICMRT
ill-judging
Indian mongoose
innerspace
interlocking matrix
joint sealing materials
king of beasts
kingoonyas
lamp-shades
langot
languorous
large coal
Lerne
leucomatous
make someone's hair stand on make someone's hair curl
mam-cu-sak
mechanical oil valve
methylethylcellulose
minimal detectable activity
Morocco agencies
morphometric cytology
multiple-beam radar
out of play
paper crop
paysant
peach pyralid moth
pinballed
polyploid state
positive stripe
presser beams
prociphilus tessellatuss
quadrillions
raw wound
Red Horde
repagination
right-cut tool
roll mandrel
rynesh
sandouville
scanning tunneling microscopy
script girl
serial sectioning
shakeel
ship communications
shop bell
smutmonger
social compensation hypothesis
spinae pubis
starter main shaft gear
take advantage of the loophole
tannenite (emplectite)
Tanner stages
tumor disease
uniflux tray S
vertical infection
walking boots
xoanon
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