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Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka

This book examines skills demand and supply in Sri Lanka, and offers insightful analysis of the education and training system, and its responsiveness to changes in demand for skills. The book also provides suggestions on how the skills development system can be improved to better achieve Sri Lanka s development goals.

The Impact of the Uruguay Round on Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

The Impact of the Uruguay Round on Africa

Annotation World Bank Discussion Paper No. 311.Examines the effects of the Uruguay Round on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings show that the effects will be minimal overall and may be beneficial to countries which make the necessary domestic reforms for participation in the world market.

The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies

Agricultural liberalization and the Uruguay round; The Uruguay round: an assessment of economywide and agricultural reforms; Trade in manufactures: the outcome of the Uruguay round and developing country interest; Liberalizing manufactures trade in changing world economy; The Uruguay round and market access: opportunities and challenges for developing countries; Assessing the Uruguay round.

Sharing the Wealth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

Sharing the Wealth

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 285. Privatization typically involves a fundamental shift of economic power, always from the state to the private sector and sometimes from domestic to foreign owners. This usually causes political conflict and invol

The Finance of Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 603

The Finance of Higher Education

A wide-ranging examination of the governmental and institutional policies and practices, and essential theories and areas of research that in combination establish the foundation, explore and extend the boundaries, and expand the base of knowledge in the field of higher education finance. (Education)

Supply and Demand for Finance of Small Enterprises in Ghana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Supply and Demand for Finance of Small Enterprises in Ghana

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 251. This study investigates the conflicting viewpoints of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and banks: the SMEs contend that the supply of bank financing is largely unavailable to them, while banks maintain

Public and Private Secondary Education in Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Public and Private Secondary Education in Developing Countries

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 311. Examines the effects of the Uruguay Round on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings show that the effects will be minimal overall and may be beneficial to countries which make the necessary domestic reforms for participation in the world market.

Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 266. Seed production and distribution are important factors in determining the pace of agricultural development. For a seed system to be effective, it must satisfy the different requirements of each crop. Presently

Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-31
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Colleges and universities are richer than ever—so why has the price of attending them risen so much? As endowments and fundraising campaigns have skyrocketed in recent decades, critics have attacked higher education for steeply increasing its production cost and price and the snowballing debt of students. In Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education, Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. Iler reveal how these trends began 150 years ago and why they have intensified in recent decades. In the late nineteenth century, American colleges and universities began fiercely competing to expand their revenue, wealth, and production cost in order to increase their quality and prestige and serve the...

Reform and Change in Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Reform and Change in Higher Education

This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of implementation analysis in higher education and an extensive review of relevant recent literature. Coverage analyzes the effective and specific complexities of the implementation of higher education policies in several countries, including: Australia, Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.