Role of human resources in economic development; investment in education, rates of return to education and distribution of earnings; health, nutrition and productivity of human resources; mobility and migration of human resources; women and human resource development; financing of human resource development; strategies of human development; human development indexes. Employment and employment models determinants of employment, Underemployment, Returns to investment in human capital. Sources of growth and role of human capital. Asian Tigers and role of human development. Human Resource conditions in South Asia, Planning and forecasting of needs for human resources / labour.