Higher education plays an important part in the European society, creating knowledge applicable to society and economy, and generating the process of economic and social evolution. Higher education institutions in Europe try to modernize both at the level of the courses they offer and at the...

The paper fundamentally starts from a generally accepted truth, namely the one stating that education is the basic foundation of social, cultural, and economic development, the guarantee of building a future when young generations are going to benefit from new abilities, knowledge, and ideals;...

This paper tests for the existence of a non-linear pattern in the process of real economic convergence. It uses a sample of 88 countries for the period 1980-1999.

En este documento se desarrolla una reflexión sobre las transformaciones que ha experimentado el sistema de producción internacional en las últimas décadas, que ha dado origen a lo que se denomina un nuevo modelo de producción e innovación, y sus implicaciones para las universidades, en...

Industry and economic growth demand various skills and expertise from the populace. As the industry grows, more specialised skills are required to match and meet the demand. However, in the case when industry growth is declining or when capacity utilisation is low skills level may fail to...

Spanish Abstract: En este documento se desarrolla una reflexión sobre las transformaciones que ha experimentado el sistema de producción internacional en las últimas décadas, que ha dado origen a lo que se denomina un nuevo modelo de producción e innovación, y sus implicaciones para las...

This paper attempts to reconcile aid-conditionality and recipient country ownership of its development process as mutually compatible ingredients of aid effectiveness. To be effective, aid itself must contribute to the end of aid. For this happen, the recipient government must, in the meantime,...

Despite the benefits of education, the learning crisis in the developing world has led the World bank to characterize it as learning poverty. Education is yet to be declared a political priority in most developing countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA), which is a mechanism for...

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...

The main objective of this paper was to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education, and on economic growth. From the results obtained, we...