Governance and Human Capital: The 21st Century Agenda attends to the major concern of the Asia Pacific Region which is developing, energing and managing the human capital. In the early 60s the drawback of the region was the lack of skilled trained and knowledge driven personnel in public sector organizations. Five decades later, the problem remains equally acute despite the instrusion of intimidating global infrastructure and technology from the West. While the national objectives of each country in the region tries to accommodate and focus on the prime needs of the people, private companies and several non-state actors aim to carve out for themselves an ever widening space for control and management. Asia-Pacific is committed to achieve the MDGs of poverty reduction, illiteracy and lack of primary healthcare facilities which in the absence of human capital may continue to be a mirage for this region. The objective of this book is to find ways to achieve a knowledge driven administrative system to unlock human capital. - from Amzon