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The skills, knowledge and experience of an individual or population, regarded as a resource or asset.  
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Human capital encompasses:
''Economics''.
*Investing in people, for example, education, training and health; and
*The belief that these investments increase an individual’s productivity.
Expenditure by firms on (or creation by firms of) capital goods and stock to be used for future production or sale.




The World Bank's Human Capital Project defines human capital as the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives, enabling them to realise their potential as productive members of society.
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More broadly, the expenditure of money or money's worth with a view to increasing over time the value invested.


==See also==
* [[Assets]]
* [[Capital]]
* [[Intangible assets]]
* [[Natural capital]]
* [[Social capital]]
* [[World Bank]]


 
== See also ==
==External link==
* [[Aggregate demand]]
[https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital The World Bank's Human Capital Project]
* [[Asset risk]]
 
* [[Associate]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
* [[Cash investing in a new world]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
* [[Injection]]
* [[Investment Committees]]
* [[Investment company]]
* [[Investor]]
* [[Non-investment product]]
* [[Robo-adviser]]
* [[Short-term investments]]

Revision as of 10:19, 6 April 2017

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Economics.

Expenditure by firms on (or creation by firms of) capital goods and stock to be used for future production or sale.


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More broadly, the expenditure of money or money's worth with a view to increasing over time the value invested.


See also