Instrumenty finansowania inwestycji w kapitał ludzki w perspektywie 2007-2013

Abstract

Human capital has always been an extremely important determinant of individual and social progress, but is even more important in an increasingly competitive and knowledge-intensive global economy. To most people, capital means a bank account, a hundred shares of IBM stock. These are all forms of capital in the sense that they are assets that yield income and other useful outputs over long periods of time. But such tangible forms of capital are not the only type of capital. Schooling, a computer training course, expenditures on medical care, and lectures on the virtues of punctuality and honesty are also capital. That is because they raise earnings, improve health, or add to a person’s good habits over much of his lifetime. Therefore, economists regard expenditures on education training, medical care, and so on as investments in human capital. They are called human capital because people cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health, or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets. The paper presents term human capital and also The Operational Programme Human Capital 2007-2013, who is a response to challenges posed by the Lisbon Strategy on member states. Those challenges include: making Poland and Europe a more attractive place for investments and working, development of knowledge and innovations in support of development and creation of a bigger number of permanent work places.