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Johnson, Eric M.; Chew, Robert – RTI International, 2021
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a promising yet underutilized tool in the international development field. SNA entails collecting and analyzing data to characterize and visualize social networks, where nodes represent network members and edges connecting nodes represent relationships or exchanges among them. SNA can help both researchers and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Development
Bocock, Piers; Collison, Chris – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Effective collaboration around knowledge management and organizational learning is a key contributor to improving the impact of international development work for the world's most vulnerable people. But how can it be proven? With only 10 years from the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals, nine of the world's most influential agencies…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Agency Cooperation, Organizational Learning, Global Approach
Todeva, Emanuela; Danson, Mike – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
This paper introduces the rationale for the special issue and its contributions, which bridge the literature on regional development and the Triple Helix model. The concept of the Triple Helix at the sub-national, and specifically regional, level is established and examined, with special regard to regional economic development founded on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Development, Governance, Innovation
Thomas, M. A. – Policy Review, 2012
The shifting ideological winds of foreign aid donors have driven their policy towards governments in poor countries. Donors supported state-led development policies in poor countries from the 1940s to the 1970s; market and private-sector driven reforms during the 1980s and 1990s; and returned their attention to the state with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Donors, Public Policy
Agbemabiese, Lawrence – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
Advances in energy access in developing countries over the past 25 years have been remarkable with more than 1 billion unserved people gaining access to electricity and modern fuels. However, as impressive as this may sound, large gaps remain: 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and another 2.5 billion continue to rely on…
Descriptors: Fuels, Energy, Rural Areas, Sustainable Development
Staats, Susan; Robertson, Douglas – MathAMATYC Educator, 2009
The Millennium Project is an international effort to improve the health, economic status, and environmental resources of the world's most vulnerable people. Using data associated with the Millennium Project, students use algebra to explore international development issues including poverty reduction and the relationship between health and economy.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Poverty, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra
McMillan, Leah K. – International Review of Education, 2010
The end of the Cold War ushered in a paradigmatic shift in international development discourse whereby a human rights-based approach to development was generated. This shift has stimulated the pegging of international development policy to the objectives of the human rights regime. However, in attempting to unify development and human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Definitions, International Education, International Programs
Gu, Jianxin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
Ever since the transnational education trend took off since the 1980s, transnational education has come to bearing political, economic and cultural implications. Different approaches have been formulated to achieve specific policy objectives by both importing and exporting countries. Such approaches demonstrate a four dimensional composition,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Altbach, Philip G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
China and India together account for almost 25% of the world's postsecondary student population. Most of the enrolment growth in the coming several decades will be in developing countries, and China and India will contribute a significant proportion of that expansion, since China currently educates only about 20% and India 10% of the age cohort.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY. Div. of Information. – 1985
In one generation, development progress has transformed the prospects for humankind, and international cooperation has been a catalyst. Technical assistance for developing countries through two predecessor organizations of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had small beginnings in 1950, and grew to become a multimillion dollar…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Development, Economic Development, International Cooperation
Brock-Utne, Birgit – Comparative Education, 2007
Norwegian official development assistance to education has been profoundly shaped by the political and ideological attitudes of successive national governments. Yet successive coalition governments of highly-contrastive kinds can alike be seen to have been strongly influenced by the policy content, language and underlying assumptions of World Bank…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trusts (Financial), Economic Development, International Organizations

Lorenzo, George – USDLA Journal, 2002
Describes the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), a satellite-driven global communication system developed by the World Bank to help developing countries fight poverty and share in a global exchange of information. Explains Distance Learning Centers that are used by private and public organizations and institutions for distance education…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Developing Nations, Distance Education, Economic Development
Rosendaal, C. Jansen van – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
Discussion of European Economic Commission (EEC) efforts to create European information market highlights information industry in European community, EEC's view of future, examples of EEC activities which stimulate and support information technology (IT), and actions intitiated by EEC to improve general market conditions for IT and IT-based…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Geographic Regions, Information Networks, Information Services

King, Maxwell C.; Koller, Albert M., Jr. – Community College Journal, 1995
Describes the development and activities of Community Colleges for International Development, Inc. (CCID), a 70-member consortium of community colleges promoting global economic development through postsecondary international education. Provides brief descriptions of CCID programs in Suriname, Guyana, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Taiwan,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Development, International Education, International Educational Exchange
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1991
The objective of the African Capacity Building Initiative is to build and strengthen local capabilities for policy analysis and development management in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report examines the nature and magnitude of the problem, which basically consists of a shortage of development management skills combined with weakness in the area of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Human Resources