Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Role of the World Bank BASSETT, THE WORLD BANK, WASHINGTON, DC (USA)

2010 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

Conference on the Role of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
Ronald Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

At the fourth Cambridge conference on development problems, the role of industry was discussed by ministers, senior officials, economic advisers, and business executives, from 22 African, Asian, and Caribbean countries, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Have some, if not all, of Africa's new nations now reached the stage when it would pay them to put their biggest bets on quick industrialisation? Or must they go on putting most of their money and brains into bringing about an agricultural revolution first, before striving for industrial take-off? These questions started the conference off on one of its big themes.

The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) and Tertiary Education in Africa: Opportunities and Predicaments of Centralized Knowledge Broadcasting Programs on the World Scale

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 231-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
N'Dri Assié-Lumumba
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Delivery ◽  
National Borders

AbstractIn the context of the increasing use of ICTs as a medium for higher education delivery across national borders, the World Bank established the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN). GDLN's official mission was to facilitate rapid and simultaneous dissemination of knowledge to audiences in various socio-geographic spaces and the expansion of the opportunity for tertiary education in developing countries. Using the case of Centre d'Education à Distance de Côte d'Ivoire, one of the GDLN national institutional affiliates in Africa, this study illustrates the agendas of liberalization and globalization through ICTs in spite of the potential for local educational gains.

Customer Orientation in the Context of Development Projects: Insights from the World Bank

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabrata Talukdar ◽  
Sumila Gulyani ◽  
Lawrence F. Salmen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Marketing Principles

Approximately half of the world's current population lives in poverty, and more than 90% of those people live in developing countries with limited access to basic social and economic amenities. Mired in such widespread poverty, developing countries thus appear to offer little opportunity for the traditional role of marketing to facilitate the monetized exchange of private goods. However, as this synthesized review of the practice of customer orientation at the World Bank shows, fundamental marketing principles and practices play an important role in incorporating the voice and interest of the poor in the provision of public goods that are designed to improve their quality of life and standard of living. This role for marketing in developing economies helps create the necessary socioeconomic infrastructure to facilitate the emergence of vibrant exchange markets for private goods in which the traditional role of marketing plays out. This article helps develop a better appreciation of a typically overlooked dimension in marketing's relationship to society in developing countries.

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