Building developmental assets and investing in educational resources

Investing Social Security Assets in Equities: Rebuttal

Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues.

This paper explores the potential of Bourdieu's approach to capital as a way of understanding class dynamics in contemporary capitalism. Recent rethinking of class analysis has sought to move beyond what Rosemary Crompton (1998) calls the 'employment aggregate approach', one which involves categorizing people into class groups according to whether they have certain attributes (e.g. occupations)...

Integrating tools and resources: a case study in building educational groupware for collaborative programming

This paper presents design implications for educational groupware as revealed by GHT (Group Homework Tool), a same time different place groupware tool built to support synchronous, collaborative coding among novice programmers. We detail the design, implementation, evaluation, and redesign of GHT, focusing on the issues of awareness, control, evaluation and scaffolding. GHT capitalizes on trend...

Investing in human resources for health: beyond health outcomes

Human resources for health are necessary to the delivery of health services; only by securing a sufficient, equitably distributed, adequately supported and well-performing health workforce can any health goals and targets set by national governments or the international community be met [1]. In spite of the recognition of this central role in attaining health outcomes, investments in human reso...

From natural resources to natural assets.

This article examines the scope for strategies to build natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. Natural assets include sources of raw materials such as forests and fisheries, and the airsheds, lands, and water bodies that provide environmental sinks for the disposal of wastes. These resources become assets when people have rights to access their benefits. Four str...