Economic growth can help not only in increased personal income but also to finance social insurance and active public intervention. Thus the contribution of economic growth is not necessarily judged by increased revenues, but also by the expansion of social services (including, in many instances, social safety nets).
In the same way, creating social opportunities, through public education services, health services, and development of a pressure of a viable and free of charge, can contribute both to the direction of economic development and reduction in mortality rates. Reducing the mortality rate, in turn, can help to reduce the birth rate, strengthen the influence of basic education - literacy kususnya woman.
Pioneering example of economic growth to social opportunities, especially in basic dalampendidikan, namely Japan. Japan has a literacy rate higher than Europe even existed when the Meiji restoration in the Middle Ages 19. Development of the Japanese economy helped by the development of human resources associated with social opportunities generated. The so-called East Asian miracle that include other countries in East Asia.
This approach erodes the trust that has been very dominant in many policy people that "human development" as the process of development of education, health care and living conditions of other human beings is a kind of luxury that only rich countries can earn. Perhaps the most major impact regarding the economic success of East Asia, from Japan, would have hidden it penggangsiran prejudice. Hiromitsu Ishi has shown, priority to human resource development particularly since the beginning of Japan's economic development history, starting with the Meiji era (1868-1911)