With three of the world's largest economies, Asia is poised to home half of the world's middle class-both the driver and the product of higher education. This handbook presents country case-studies and explores cross-cutting trends to offer an understanding of higher education achievements,...

This paper analyzes the new lending conditionalities of the Bretton Woods institutions in the area of “governance” in a sample of twenty-five upper tranche arrangements in 1999. It finds that the scope and number of conditions, defined both narrowly and loosely, have expanded. Is this...

The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local knowledge networks (brain drain), but may also help...