The continuous transformation the economy faces, requires the existence of an educated population, able to create and disseminate knowledge. Moreover, the governments dealing with a rapidly increasing number of students, in the conditions of limited resou

This paper is a theoretical introduction to modern governance of universities in developing countries. Indeed, adopting the approach of the paradigm of the theory of incentives Laffont and Tirole (1993), this paper discusses the effects of the presence of information asymmetry between the State...

The interest of this paper is to show the effect of the action of the public power over the management of public expenditure on education. Our empirical attempt tries to clarify the direct and indirect effects of the efficiency of the government on the development of public spending for the...

In this contribution, we study the organization and the funding mechanisms of higher education. We show that higher education is organized and funded very differently among OECD countries. We put forward the fact that this heterogeneity in its organization and funding corresponds to different...

Presque tous les travailleurs ont un niveau d’instruction correspondant au moins au deuxième cycle de l’enseignement secondaire, et l’enseignement professionnel contribue à assurer aux jeunes un passage à l’emploi parmi les plus réussis de la zone de l’OCDE. L’enseignement...

Lors de leur réunion du 3 novembre à Nice, les dirigeants du G20 ont adopté dix principes de haut niveau sur la protection des consommateurs dans le domaine des services financiers. Ces principes ont pour objectif de participer au rétablissement de la confiance des consommateurs et à...

The topic of this paper is public financing of university education in Quebec, which is analysed from the point of view of scarcity: even governments must submit to this reality. Our argument is built around three questions: How much should society spend? How should the burden be distributed...

This paper offers an analysis of the career security according to three criteria defined by the CERC (2005) : the job stability (length of job tenure), the job security (short duration of unemployment after an external mobility) and the income security (maintaining or increasing incomes). We try...

Cet article propose une réflexion sur l’action publique pour accompagner, orienter et réguler les transformations et les différenciations régionales face à la mondialisation. Les défis pour l’État sont importants dans la mesure où il existe, à côté des grandes agglomérations, des...