Showing 1 - 10 of 55
Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474081
China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the … information about China's economy after WTO accession and analyses many important issues concerning China's economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851328
The record of global economic development analyses the long-term and current economic forces which promote or impede globalisation, drawing on the experience of economic history to help interpret major trends in modern economies
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851918
Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends: the shift in the balance of global growth from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012689551
Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851622
This comprehensive book provides a reearch review of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and Marginson, which cover key areas of theoretical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852159
China's accession for the rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851883
This book addresses a number of important topics and issues associated with China's economic transition, growth and … spillover effects of China's growth, to investigate the relationship between growth and business cycle, and to shed light on … China's growth prospects in the coming decade. In the context of growth, transition and globalization, the chapters also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474069
Recent research has found pronounced differences in the level of entrepreneurship and new business formation across various regions and nations. This timely Handbook reveals that the development of new ventures as well as their effects on overall economic growth are strongly shaped by their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850876
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851202