EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Bangladesh is in a nascent stage of economic development. Development does not take place overnight. It is a gradual process. Foresight and careful planning are required to achieve the desired pace of economic growth. To achieve that end we need to identify the sectors in the economy which contribute substantially to the national GDP, and take measured to further enhance their contribution. Population has a great influence on economic development. Skilled population accelerate the economic growth of a country effectively. So vital question of economic development is skilled manpower. In Bangladesh, A large number of population is there, But unfotunately, most of them people are not skilled in any kind of technical knowledge and skillness which is help to increase or accelerate the economic growth. Now, Our government try to creat skilled manpower from those large number of population and they also provide various scope for them. For this purposes, the government has taken various program. The sixth in the series of Bangladesh Human Development Reports (HDRs) issued since 1992 by UNDP Dhaka. These reports, which build on the global HDRs produced annually by UNDP in New York, show how the concepts and principles of sustainable human development apply in the specific context of Bangladesh. All the HDRs, global and national, use the human development index (HDI) a composite yardstick of achievement that incorporates three essential elements of human life: longevity, education, and standard of living. The HDI allows comparisons of levels of human development within and between countries comparisons more meaningful and productive than those based on income alone. The 1997 global HDR put Bangladesh at number 144 in the world ranking. This report focuses on Bangladeshs HDI. All calculations presented in there was prepared by BIDS. First, it estimates changes in the national HDI over the past two years. Than it looks more closely to see how the HDI varies among different sections of society disaggregating it according to income group, gender and location. Bangladeshs Human Development Index Before discussing changes in the HDI it should be noted that there is a distinction between the year in which the report is published and the year to which the data correspond. Global HDRs operate with a three-year time lag so the 1997 report used 1994 data. The Bangladesh HDR can be more responsive. Even so, the lag may still be two years or more. Thus the 1996 Bangladseh HDR used 1994 data, the present report uses data for 1995. The 1997 global HDR showed Bangladesh making some progress. It estimated that between 1993 and 1994 Bangladeshs HDI increased from 0.365 to 0.368. One dis turbing trend concerns Bangladeshs relative position in the rankings for HDI and for GDP. Over the past four or five years Bangladeshs progress in juman development seems to have lagged behind its progress in gross domestic product, suggesting that growth has not commensurately benefited the poorest sections of society.
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For 1994, further data have now become available allowing for a more accurate estimate of the HDI. These suggest that the HDI for that year was 0.400 8.7 percent higher than estimated in the 1997 global HDR. This Bangladesh HDR also calculates the HDI for 1995 estimating it at 0.392. The decline since 1994 is largely the result of relatively low scores on adult literacy. Since the data sources for the two years are not strictly comparable, however, there may be reservation about the significance of this change. Human Development Challenges for Bangladesh There seems to be a growing consensus that, if the HDI is to rise significantly and Bangladesh is to make real progress in fighting poverty it will need double-digit growth sustained for 10 to 15 years. And the benefits of this growth will have to be directed toward the poor. For fulfil this purposes the following things are considered heardly and carefully and try to impliment properly following this things : Economic Growth and Income Education Health Poverty Gender Issues, etc.

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