In the majority economic areas of the world, family businesses are the overwhelming majority, it is certain in the case of small and medium-sized businesses. Large family companies - in opposition to common opinion - are not the economy margin. It is other way round, they are not directly...

This report describes how tertiary education contributes to building up a country's capacity for participation in an increasingly knowledge-based world economy and investigates policy options for tertiary education that have the potential to enhance economic growth and reduce poverty. It...

Consideration of lifelong learning extends the World Bank's traditional approach to education, in which subsectors are looked at in isolation. Three years ago, when he articulated the Comprehensive Development Framework, World Bank President James Wolfensohn referred explicitly to lifelong...