Human capital to fuel Bahrain's growth engine

Shaikh Salman?showcases Kingdom's development model in Japan Dubbing human capital as the real growth engine, the Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa yesterday said the Kingdom was investing in its true wealth - its people - combining human development and economic development on its march into the future. "They are two wheels on the same cart - interdependent on each one and ineffective without the support of the other. Underpinning our plans for tomorrow is the central ethos that human development and economic development are inextricably linked," he said, addressing students, academicians, representatives of financial and banking sectors and intellectuals and thinkers at the Waseda University in Japan. Showcasing the Bahraini model of development, he said the Kingdom in the last few years had made changes in... [read full story]