text: per cent and we can cut Alii mortality by 25 per cent. We can virtually eliminate blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency. The list of doable propo- sitions goes on and on. Hut if the international community is to honour its moral obligations towards children and give more than lip-service to the ideals of the Convention, our leaders will first have to look at the world, and cheir priorities afresh. UNICKF'S call for 'adjustment with a human face" has highlighted the im- pact of economic restructuring on the most vulnerable communities and their children. We have argued with traditional economists and planners that the final measure of national growth is not the upward curve of GNP but human progress measured by human factors such as reduced hunger and malnutrition, increases in life ex- pectancy, lower child death rates, and access to health services and educa- tion. Development in the 1990s should be judged bv human indicators, not economic variables. For growth to be sustainable, nations must protect and develop their human capital. Leaders must consider nutrition as well as inflation, food intake as well as the balance of payments, shortfalls in household income as well as govern- ment budget deficits. They must give first call to those whose development will shape tomorrow's world. If present trends continue, more than 100 million children will die during the 1990s - half of them from three common diseases which could be treated or prevented for a te\\ centsper child. The survivors will be left to muddle through in communities where schools have no teachers, where clinics lack drugs or trained health workers. As President Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said: "Few scourges in human history can claim so many victims as todays debt crisis'". The debt crisis alone however does nor explain the lost opportunities of
analysis: The text discusses the importance of prioritizing human development, particularly in relation to children's health and education, in the context of economic restructuring and debt crisis. It highlights the need to consider human indicators, such as reduced hunger and malnutrition, and increased access to healthcare and education, when measuring national growth.