| Summary: | The notion and theory of human capital has been in development for scores of decades if not centuries. Today, conventional wisdom holds that human capital serves as a driver for growth and human resources development and should serve as one of the top priorities for national governments striving for economic growth and development. This paper adds to the academic discussion on a subject concerned by providing a case-study of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) strategic planning documents. We present an analysis of the latest studies and official reports on the matter concerned, adopted by OECD in the period between its 50th and 60th anniversary (2010–2021). We later study national strategies and policy plans delivered during this period of time by the national governments of OECD member-states on the subjects of national security, healthcare, education, and socioeconomic development. (For the instruments available in English we also use special IP for machine semantic analysis). We later compare OECD findings and recommendations to actual policies adopted by member-states hereinunder. We find that the governments concerned underscore the necessity of human capital development (including a number of issues connected thereto in OECD findings), but they do not necessarily do it in the manner suggested by OECD. We do not manage to identify the existence of viable inter-institutional networks for human capital planning hereinunder, while we also show a relatively low level of homogeneity between the member-states in terms of their approaches towards human capital development.
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