Faculty, administrators, businesses, accrediting agencies, and other institutions concerned with higher education quality must act to provide a framework for international higher learning standards, particularly concerning e-learning and access in developing countries. Higher education...

The theory of internationalization has mainly focused on the internationalization of firms and their economic effects and has neglected the role of the educational institutions. The Brazilian higher education system is the largest in Latin America (Inep, 2010) and has passed through important...

The first edition of this pioneering book produced surprising conclusions from research around the world into the extent of private education. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries, Professor...

We argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of African countries in which globalization influences ‘peace and stability’ and peace and stability affects governance, and through governance the knowledge economy. We model the link as a...

This paper highlights the implication of consumerism on the incidence of child in a developing economy using a two-sector general equilibrium model. It finds that although consumerism raises incomes of the poor households and decreases the earning opportunities of the children, this is not...

Conscious or Unconscious, we survive under the age of strategy or strategic planning. It is one of essential process for the public organization, and the kind of central reference for the leadership. For the followers, it is the kind of standard of conduct for reward and discipline, probably a...

This paper looks at fundamental findings from the field of empirical intercultural research, taking an unusual viewpoint: analogies with insurance premium rating. Intercultural findings are of interest to the insurance industry in their own right. They become even more interesting, however, when...

A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub-Sahara African countries during the 1996-2010 time period concluded that formal institutions were necessary, but inadequate, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study,...

A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub-Sahara African countries during the 1996-2010 time period concluded that formal institutions were necessary, but inadequate, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study,...

Die Forschung und in deren Folge auch die Lehre zu nationalen und europäischen Fragen und Problemen stehen vor einem Dilemma. In vielen Fächern findet die weltbeste Forschung nicht nur in den USA statt, sondern vor allem auch über die USA, ihre Fragestellungen und Probleme mit amerikanischen...