Since the end of the Cold War, international relations has radically changed. The collapse of the Soviet Union took with it the East-West conflict that dominated world affairs for more than four decades. In its place, the North-South division has emerged as an important framework for reconceptualizing international relations. How the United States…

Given the global computerization environment, this paper aspires for the kind of information manager in Africa that is versatile globally, deals with all sorts of technical and resource management issues, and relates at all levels of interaction. The emphasis is on the information professional and manager with a vision of good leadership and…

This paper investigates how the remuneration of education has evolved during 1982-98, the period of reform. This strand of literature documents an increased convexity of the earnings function; that is, the returns of one additional year of schooling rises with the years of completed schooling. The educational attainment of Brazil's labor force has…

This paper provides a survey-based analysis of the governance of school performance in Tikur Inchina, a "woreda" (a sub-national unit of government) in Ethiopia's Oronia Region. A World Bank team piloted the "assessing constraints" survey tool to collect quantitative and perception data on the governance underpinnings of…

For a large part of the last two millennia, China was the world's largest and most advanced economy. Then it missed the Industrial Revolution and stagnated. Only after opening to the outside world in 1979 was China's economic performance again impressive. At the turn of the 21st century, China faces daunting internal challenges compounded by the…

This paper explores a model of partnership development that emerges from five years of experience grounded in the Southern African context. The model incorporates a continuum of configurations linked to nine critical dimensions: Focus of Interaction; Activities/Projects/Programs; Time and Orientation; Benefit; Trust and Respect; Organizational…

This study explored issues related to teacher training in China. After a review of the historical and current development of Chinese teacher education, the paper discusses issues related to teacher training for adult education. Results of a survey indicated that teacher training for adult education in China was very inadequate. The system needed a…

Monitoring Learning Achievement (MLA), a joint UNESCO-UNICEF international education assessment initiative, obtains information on the "effectiveness of basic education provision[s] in terms of actual learning achievement." The empirical evidence from the 1999 MLA project countries provides both a diagnosis and possible actions to be…

Global Population Profile: 2002 summarizes the most important trends in global population at the dawn of the 21st century. The presentation is organized around four themes: (1) Global Population; (2) Growth, Global Population; (3) Composition, Contraceptive Prevalence in the Developing World; and (4) the AIDS Pandemic in the 21st Century. This…

Two limitations in the Report of the International Commission on the Development in Education reflect its unenthusiastic welcome from certain sectors of the Third World. The document failed to explain the phenomenon of inequality and of social and educational injustice and contained an ingenuous reliance on a scientific approach. (Author/KM)

This chapter of a working paper, drawing on studies by eight African States, analyzes the dissatisfaction existing among young people who are educated for a type of employment available to only a few. General policy guidelines which could help meet the needs of both rural and urban students are discussed. (KM)

Article considered what can be done to relate education to social and economic needs. (Author/RK)

Author considered the future of comparative education in terms of four interrelated worlds of discourse'', the world of new nations, crises in old nations, the world of scholarship, and the professional world of teacher education. (Author/RK)

This article describes the development of education in Nepal from its beginnings in indigenous education associated with Hindu and Buddhist religions to the present democratic period, which began in 1971 and entails a reform in curriculum and school organization. (JH)

Student attributes and training, institutional farm facilities, teaching staff, and institutional atmosphere and tradition are discussed in relationship to the planning of agricultural two-year training programs in developing countries. Emphasis is placed on testing students' ability to solve problems in the field and apply knowledge in a…