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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?
Riddell, Abby - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331093
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International organizations and the future of education assistance
Heyneman, Stephen P.; Lee, Bommi - 2013
Education began to be included as a component of foreign assistance in the early 1960s as it is a principal ingredient … education aid, examines their effectiveness, discusses major problems in implementing educational programmes and suggests ways … to improve aid in education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319949
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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy
Brezis, Elise S. - 2010
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280198
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280061
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Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2011
industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280066
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Indonesian industrialization: A latecomer adjusting to crises
Aswicahyono, Haryo; Hill, Hal; Narjoko, Dionisius - 2011
This paper examines Indonesia's industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its … developing country industrialization from the Indonesian experience. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280138
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Economic history of industrialization in Cambodia
Chhair, Sokty; Ung, Luyna - 2013
The industrialization which started in 1953 had been completely disrupted by the chronic civil war and closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333688
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Mozambique's industrialization
Sousa Cruz, António; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, … - 2014
After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards, a multi-party democracy with a mix of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343221
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Scoping study on the evolution of industry in Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles; Turkson, Festus - 2014
-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352724
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Regional opportunities in East Africa
Karingi, Stephen N.; Pesce, Ottavia; Sommer, Lily - 2016
industrialization, in particular through the development of competitive smokestack-free industries. It concludes that regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653972