undertaken, then adjustment and balance will be achieved in a disorderly way with runaway inflation and catastrophic falls in real incomes. My concern, therefore, is not with the necessity for, or the broad objectives of, adjustment programmes. My concern, rather, is with the practice that has developed of total micromanagement of a country's economy with not only detailed JSM/edd A/S-18/PV.2 30 (Mr. Coore, Jamaica) quantitative targets being set but also the designation of specific policies and actions which nust be taken. The country is thereby denied the opportunity of obtaining these objectives·!::¥ exercising its own judgement as to what are the best policy prescriptions. The insistence on minute quantitative targets, some of which have to be achieved on a monthly basis, can turn out to be wholly unrealistic. In short, there is urgent need for re-examination of the basic assumptions of the structural adjustment prescriptions being administered and a greater degree of flexibility in the extent to which they are translated into precise programmes. The third issue I should like to emphasize is the primacy that must be qiven in any development strategy to human resources. In the final analysis, development of our human resources is an essential condition of sustained economic growth. This has always been so, but it is even nore obvious and imperative in the world of rapid technological change in which we live. R-1/8 A/S-18/PV. 2 31 (Mr. Coore, Jamaica) Education and training, adequate housing, health and nutrition must be in the forefront of national developnent programmes and international co-operative assistance. we often speak of the desirability of the transfer of technology to developing countries, but for this to take place effectively the transferee has to be in a positicn to receive, retain and utilize it. This requires a p:>pulation educated not only in a general sense but specifically educated in the disciplines 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the importance of human resources in development, the need for flexibility in economic adjustment programs, and the emphasis on education and training. These themes suggest that the text is focused on economic development and human capital development.

**Category**
Economic development, Education