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Book World Education Indicators 2002 Financing Education   Investments and Returns

Download or read book World Education Indicators 2002 Financing Education Investments and Returns written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the third in a series of publications that seeks to analyse the education indicators developed through the OECD/UNESCO World Education Indicators (WEI) programme. The volume examines both the investments and returns to education and human capital.

Book Financing Education  Investments and Returns

Download or read book Financing Education Investments and Returns written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As individuals and nations increasingly recognize that high levels of knowledge and skills are essential to success, spending on education becomes more an investment into a collective future, rather than an individual consumption. Investment in human capital has thus moved to the centre of strategies to promote economic prosperity, better skilled labour forces, social cohesion and other positive individual and social benefits. However, public and private resources remain limited. The challenge of expanding educational opportunities while maintaining their quality and equitable distribution is linked to education finance. This report brings together crucial evidence on the role of human capital and education in fostering economic well-being. It also considers the benefits of public and private stakeholders in education. A national statistical profile that sets out selected contextual and finance indicators together with a comprehensive statistical annex covering both WEI and OECD countries completes the analysis. The countries participating in the World Education Indicators Programme (WEI) are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay andZimbabwe.

Book World Education Indicators 1999 Investing in Education

Download or read book World Education Indicators 1999 Investing in Education written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds light on the comparative performance of education systems, with an analysis that extends to the financial and human resources invested in education, how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and to the returns to educational investment.

Book Investing in Education

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  • Author : UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators Programme
  • Publisher : UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators Programme
  • Release : 2000
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  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Investing in Education written by UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators Programme and published by UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators Programme. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds light on the comparative performance of education systems, with an analysis that extends to the financial and human resources invested in education, how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and the returns to educational investment.

Book Education at a Glance 2002 OECD Indicators

Download or read book Education at a Glance 2002 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2002 edition of Education at a Glance -- OECD Indicators provides information on the output of educational institutions and the impact of learning, the policy levers that shape educational outcomes and how education systems operate and evolve, and the human and financial resources invested.

Book Costs and Financing of Higher Education in Francophone Africa

Download or read book Costs and Financing of Higher Education in Francophone Africa written by Mathieu Brossard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a low enrollment rate in higher education of 3 percent on average, in comparison with 8 percent in countries with comparable levels of development, Francophone African countries are currently facing an immense challenge in terms of numbers. The increased social demand associated with the progress made in universal primary enrollment and the increase in secondary enrollment could cause the student population to grow from 800,000 in 2004 to approximately 2 million in 2015, and to double the coverage. This increase exacerbates the financial problems of higher education institutions and mi.

Book Risk Sharing Finance

Download or read book Risk Sharing Finance written by Saad Bakkali and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary finance deals mainly with multilateral and multi-counterparty transactions. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) has yet to develop its conceptualization of this modality of financing. Thus far, it has become a norm for large financing projects to rely on a complex structure of interconnected bilateral contracts that in totality becomes opaque, complex and costly. An unfortunate result of the unavailability of an efficient Fiqhi model applicable to modern multilateral and multi-counterparty contracts has been the fact that the present Islamic finance has been forced to replicate conventional risk-transfer (interest rate based) debt contracts thus drawing severe criticisms of duplicating conventional finance. In 2012, a gathering of some of the Muslim world’s most prominent experts in Jurisprudence (Fuqaha) and economists issued the Kuala Lumpur Declaration (Fatwa) in which they identified risk sharing as the essence of Islamic finance. The Declaration opened the door for a new Fiqh approach to take the lead in developing the jurisprudence of multilateral and multi-counterparty transactions. This Declaration (Fatwa) provides a prime motivation to search for a comprehensive model of risk sharing that can serve as an archetypal contract encompassing all potential contemporary financial transactions. From the perspective of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), the technicalities of the concept of risk sharing in contemporary finance have yet to be defined in Islamic literature. This book attempts to clarify and shed light on these technicalities from the perspective of Fiqh. It is a comprehensive study that relies on the fundamental Islamic sources to establish a theoretical and practical perspective of Fiqh encompassing risk-sharing Islamic finance as envisioned in the Kuala Lumpur Declaration of 2012. This new paradigm should lead to a more efficient approach to multilateral and multi-counterparty Islamic contracts which, here-to-fore has been lacking in the current configuration of Islamic finance.

Book Critical Perspectives on International Education

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on International Education written by Yvonne Hébert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rapidly globalizing spaces of life, any research project on international education would necessarily have multi-directional emphases, with the quality of observations and analyses reflecting the expanding political, economic and cultural intersections which characterize this potentially promising century. To respond to these emerging learning and living contexts of our world, this book brings together some of the most active and established scholars in the field. As such, the book represents important epistemic interventions that analyze and critique the institutional, socio-economic, linguistic and pedagogical platforms of international education. As the locus of international education cannot be detached from the pragmatics of social development, the specific recommendations embedded in this book expand the debates and broaden the boundaries of learning projects that should enhance the lives of people, especially those who are continually marginalized by the regimes of globalization. Thus, the book actively advocates for possibilities of human well-beings via different formats of education in diverse locations of life. “Critical Perspectives on International Education offers a historically comprehensive, intellectually honest, and perspective-rich scholarly exploration of a new education-globalization dynamic. This book courageously offers up diverse voices, gathered into a robust and useful conversation regarding global education. This book adds greatly to understanding why educational marketplaces must be driven by principles and practices that empower diverse peoples, to secure sustainable knowledge benefits that contribute to personal, local, national and international well-being. This critical perspective reader will engage scholars, researchers and citizens.” Jim Paul, University of Calgary “In the current intensifications of globalization and its resulting inequalities, it is crucial to better understand the role of knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination. Should knowledge be only a commodity to be sold in the market and a tool to increase economic capital, or should it be a shared sociocultural capital aimed at improving democracy and the common good? In Critical Perspectives on International Education, Yvonne Hébert and Ali A. Abdi assemble an impressive array of contributions from all over the world that address this question from a variety of critical perspectives and case studies. I recommend this book to everyone interested in the connections between education, citizenship development and human well-being.” Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University

Book International Handbook on the Economics of Education

Download or read book International Handbook on the Economics of Education written by Geraint Johnes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . is a voluminous and timely collection of 18 essays that addresses a number of core issues on the economics of education. . . An exhaustive survey of the literature on the role of universities as multi-product firms at various levels and disciplines identifies the nature of the economies of scope and scale. This enriches the volume further. Economic Analysis & Policy . . . the endeavour of bringing together very knowledgeable contributors, including some of the leading contributors to the literature in the UK and beyond, to write a handbook on the economics of education is highly appreciated. The Handbook contains 18 substantive chapters, encapsulated by a brief introduction and an extensive and a very useful index. . . the Handbook should be praised as a useful overview of the field of economics of education as it stands today. Ludger Wößmann, Economic Issues This major Handbook comprehensively surveys the rapidly growing field of the economics of education. It is unique in that it comprises original contributions on an exceptional range of topics from a review of human capital, signalling and screening models, to consideration of issues such as educational externalities and economic growth, funding models, determinants of educational success, the educational production function, educational standards and efficiency measurement. Labour market issues such as the market for teachers and the transition of students from school to work are also explored. The International Handbook on the Economics of Education will be warmly welcomed by academic economists, educational researchers and practitioners in educational management as well as policymakers. Comprising specially commissioned articles, the Handbook will become indispensable reference for this ever topical field of study.

Book Commonwealth Education Partnerships  2007

Download or read book Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2007 written by and published by Nexus Strategic Partnerships Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonwealth Education Partnership 2007 is an essential overview of the development of education systems in the Commonwealth, focusing on international collaborations and on the partnerships in member countries between government, NGOs and the private sector in education. Focuses in this edition: increasing access and the right to quality education; supporting teachers for quality education; resourcing; and education for the good of all. Published for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Nexus Partnerships.

Book World Development Indicators  computer File

Download or read book World Development Indicators computer File written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Chapters in this book focus on the people, economy, environment, states and markets, world view, and global links for 148 countries. As a whole, these chapters present an expanded view of the world economy. Introductions highlight recent research on major development issues worldwide.

Book Education in Ethiopia

Download or read book Education in Ethiopia written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a detailed snapshot of the education sector up to 2001-02, and for some aspects of the sector, up to 2002-03. It takes advantage of administrative data and information from household surveys to document key dimensions of the sector, particularly primary and secondary education, focusing on costs, finance, and service delivery, and their impact on learning achievement, in an effort to discover potentially important areas for further policy development. --foreword.

Book The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education

Download or read book The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education written by David P. Baker and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrollment in institutions of higher education around the world is growing. Some scholars have suggested that one reason for this expansion is that the role of higher education has shifted over the last 50 years from an elite to a mass institution. This book discusses the worldwide transformation of higher education from multiple perspectives.

Book Education at a Glance 2004 OECD Indicators

Download or read book Education at a Glance 2004 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems.

Book Financing Higher Education

Download or read book Financing Higher Education written by D. Bruce Johnstone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The underlying theory of cost-sharing as well as the description of its worldwide reach were developed from 1986 through 2006 mainly by the works of Johnstone and his Ford Foundation financed International Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The principal papers from this project are reproduced in this volume. They examine the worldwide shift in the burden of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students, and the policies of grants, loans and other governmental interventions designed to maintain higher educational accessibility in the face of this shift.

Book Education at a Glance 2001 OECD Indicators

Download or read book Education at a Glance 2001 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-06-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 edition of Education at a Glance - OECD Indicators provides information on the human and financial resources invested in education, on how education and learning systems operate and evolve, and on the returns to educational investments.