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Peer reviewedWoodhall, Maureen – Higher Education, 1992
This introductory article describes current research on student loans in developing countries and concludes that student loans in these countries are feasible, can promote wider cost sharing, and can help to generate additional resources for higher education but only if loan programs are well designed and efficiently managed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Paying for College
St. John, Edward P. – 1990
This literature review examines the effectiveness of student financial aid in light of doubts raised about it at the start of the 1980s and subsequent cuts in federal support for student aid as a result of those doubts. The review has three objectives: to determine whether there are reasons to doubt the effectiveness of student aid; to determine…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Financial Policy, Higher Education
Download full textHauptman, Arthur M.; Merisotis, Jamie P. – 1989
More than $25 billion in financial aid in 1988 is awarded annually to students attending postsecondary education. The aid covers about the same percentage of college costs that it did in 1970, but the impact of veterans' education benefits and social security benefits is no longer significant, and loans now make up one-half the total aid, having…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Financial Services
