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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Regional
Higher Education and Development
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Regional
Higher Education and Development
About this book
The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's leading scholars and development practitioners for a lively debate on state-of-the-art thinking in development policy and the implications for the global economy. The 19th conference was held in Beijing, China, January 16-17, 2007. The theme of the conference was higher education and development, which was divided into five topics: migration, private-public provision, financing, technological innovation, and labor markets in Asia. IN THIS VOLUME Introduction by Justin Yifu Lin and Boris Pleskovic; opening addresses by Wu Qidi and François Bourguignon; keynote addresses by François Bourguignon and F. Halsey Rogers, Min Weifang, and L. Alan Winters; papers by Pawan Agarwal, Nicholas Barr, Maryann Feldmann and Ian Stewart, Daniel Levy, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Mark Rosenweig; and comments by Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro, Kai-Ming Cheng, Frederic Doquier, Fumio Kodama, Norman LaRocque, Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, Patricia A. Sto Tomas, and Shahid Yusuf.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- ABOUT THIS BOOK
- NTRODUCTION
- OPENING ADDRESS
- OPENING ADDRESS
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Skilled Labor and the International Economy: Whence It Comes, Whither It Goes
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Global Returns to Higher Education: Trends, Drivers, and Policy Responses
- KEYNOTE ADDRESSHigher Education Financing in East Asia: Policy Implications for China
- Higher Education and Migration: Brain Drain and Sharing Skills in the Region
- Private-Public Provision of Higher Education
- Financing Higher Education
- Technological Innovation: Linkages between Universities and Industry
- Higher Education and Labor Markets in Asia