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Robertson, Susan L.; Komljenovic, Janja – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This paper examines the growth of global non-state and multilateral actors in the "global south" and the creation of frontier markets in the higher education sector. These developments are part of market-making changes in higher education as the sector is opened to new actors, logics, and innovative services, aimed at "the global…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Commercialization, Competition
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Gnegy, Alan M.; Wilson, Alan J.; Sementa, Albert; McWilliams, Aman; Helmer, Caitlin; Kidwell, Jacob; Swaim, Kelsey L.; Neidermeyer, Presha E. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
In world regions receiving direct foreign aid, beneficiaries of aid often lack the education required to remove themselves from poverty. Micro-lending refers to the initiation of small loans to the neediest of borrowers who are unable to secure traditional financing from financial intermediaries. In order for micro-lending to thrive as a viable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Foreign Policy, Financial Support
Smith, G. A. – 1971
The underlying theme of this paper is the relevance of the "package program" approach for the development of peasant agriculture in Southern Africa, particularly where there are livestock and population pressures with a declining soil fertility situation. In Rhodesia, full-time short literacy courses were held in June and July 1970, as a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Credit (Finance)
Smith, G. A. – 1970
In Seki Tribal Trust Land in Rhodesia, during June and July, 1970, full-time literacy courses attended by 65 participants were held for members of three savings clubs. The first objective was to replicate the literacy teaching developed for the Chiduku literacy project (see AC 008 361), which included teaching the Shona primer and then teaching…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Arithmetic, Church Programs, Cooperatives
Shane, Mathew; Stallings, David – 1987
The conclusion of this study of 79 developing countries was that forgiving some of the indebtedness of developing countries may stimulate mutually beneficial trade among all nations. the international debt-repayment problems of Poland in 1981 and was followed by problems in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina in 1982. This crisis has proven to be a more…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Debt (Financial), Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Neville-Rolfe, Edmund, Comp. – 1969
Some 1394 research studies from various African countries are annotated in this bibliography, which is divided into 37 country sections with a separate section (Africa General) for studies dealing with the continent as a whole, with geographical regions, or with groups of countries. The publications listed and summarized were published primarily…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Annotated Bibliographies, Cooperative Programs, Credit (Finance)