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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocation, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. It turns out that poorer countries get clearly more aid from both bilateral and multilateral donors. Most donors are also found to direct...

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Social policy in economic development : the case of health and old age insurance

Thiele, Rainer - 1997

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Governing universities globally : organizations, regulation and rankings

King, Roger - 2009

The comprehensive coverage of global university governance includes conceptual, theoretical and empirical analyses that will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners. Global governance analysts, global business and...

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The globalization of higher education

King, Roger - 2013

Derwende (2007), 'The Paradox in International Cooperation: Institutionally Embedded Universities in a Global Environment … University Press, 108-29 -- Amartya Sen (1999), 'Global Justice: Beyond International Equity', in Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg … and Marc A. Stern (eds), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, New York, NY and Oxford, UK …

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Handbook on globalization and higher education

King, Roger (contributor); Naidoo, Rajani (contributor); … - 2011

Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher...

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