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2. Insights into Accounting Education in a COVID-19 World
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Sangster, Alan, Stoner, Greg, and Flood, Barbara
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This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and teaching strategies away from the comfort of traditional formats, but many more that are negative, primarily relating to the impact on faculty and student health and well-being, and the accompanying stress. It identifies issues that need to be addressed in the recovery and redesign stages of the management of this crisis, and it sets a new research agenda for studies in accounting education.
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- 2020
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3. Beyond the Neoclassical University: Agricultural Higher Education in the Developing World - An Interpretive Essay. A.I.D. Program Evaluation Report No. 20.
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Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. and Hansen, Gary E.
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This paper offers reflections on the role of the agricultural university in developing nations by analyzing in turn the factors that contribute to stagnation of these universities. It first takes up the policy conditions that govern the broad outlines of the agricultural university mandate such as the university's relationship with the ministry of agriculture, the degrees of autonomy and accountability, and policymakers' vision of the role of the university. In addition the paper explores the roles and mission that the university defines for itself, particularly the early emphasis on modernization of farming practices through an emphasis on applied innovation in biology and chemistry (and minimal attention given to the social sciences). One of the paper's central arguments is that this emphasis on the sciences and technology has kept the agricultural university from enhancing its role in society and has seriously weakened its ability to establish a strong political base from which to derive sustenance and support. A discussion of organizational structure suggests that the focus on the sciences in a department-based format has perhaps limited the university's ability to improve rural livelihood. A final discussion looks at the philosophy of education that informs the educational experience for faculty and students. (JB)
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- 1990
4. The Rise of the Big Emerging Markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China: Implications for International Business Teaching in the Next Decade
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Scott-Kennel, Joanna and Salmi, Asta
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The rise of Brazil, Russia, India, and China will shape global resource use, the location of market demand and international institutions and interdependencies in the decade to come. In this paper we argue that an understanding of the historical and institutional context of the BRICs, and the potential shift towards a multi-polar world is important for developing curricula and content in international business courses in the future. Implications for international business theory and teaching are discussed. (Contains 4 tables.)
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- 2008
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5. Commentary on Current Practices and Future Directions for the Assessment of Child and Adolescent Intelligence in Schools around the World
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Schneider, W. Joel and Kaufman, Alan S.
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As documented in this special issue, all over the world hard choices must be made in education, government, business, and medicine. Intelligence tests, used intelligently and with appropriate ethical safeguards, are one tool of many that help make hard choices work out well, or at least better than the next-best alternative (Kaufman, Raiford, & Coalson, 2016). The reliability of intelligence tests is far from perfect. Complaining about IQ tests is the privilege of those who have them. It is probably no accident that intelligence tests were invented in France, not long after a series of reforms from 1881 to 1901 made education free and compulsory for all children (Harrigan, 2001). It is likewise probably not an accident that intelligence testing was then adopted most enthusiastically in the world's wealthiest countries in the midst of similar attempts to raise educational standards. Among the countries featured in this special issue, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States achieved near-universal education decades ago; Brazil, India, Mexico, Oman, and Peru have done so only within the last 15 years. Once a government takes on the responsibility of educating all of its citizens and then successfully achieves near-universal school attendance, it is confronted with the magnitude of population-wide individual differences in academic aptitude. The most pressing concern has to do with vulnerable children with intellectual disabilities. It is true that every child can learn, but not every child learns best in regular education. In this commentary, the author addresses the relation between universal education and the need for intelligence testing. The article goes on to compare U.S. developments in intelligence testing with those in Oman, Greece, India, Japan, Brazil, Peru, and the Netherlands. It concludes with three themes that emerged among the articles in this issue.
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- 2016
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6. Public-Private Convergence and the Special Case of Voucher-Receiving Schools
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Loomis, Steven R., Rodriguez, Jacob P., Honeycutt, Jar, and Arellano, Manuel
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Many arguments in favour of school voucher programs are based upon libertarian free agency principles. Viewed at the organizational level, allowing persons to exercise choice in education would seem to offer incentives for all educational organizations within that framework to improve overall product quality and thus more effectively obtain the education good for both individual and society. However, analysis from the transcending institutional level shows that "supra"-organizational forces will progressively reduce choice and quality as both private and public organizations relinquish their distinctive curricula and philosophies as a "de facto" requirement for participation within the broader educational institution or "market". Acknowledging the costs of, and designing policy to maintain, particular information are both essential to effectively producing the education good within a competitive institutional structure. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2006
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7. Learning or Labouring? A Compilation of Key Texts on Child Work and Basic Education.
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United Nations Children's Fund, Florence (Italy). International Child Development Centre., Ennew, Judith, Ennew, Judith, and United Nations Children's Fund, Florence (Italy). International Child Development Centre.
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Harmonized with UNICEF's efforts to reduce hazardous and exploitative forms of child labor, this compilation of key texts examines the area of child labor and basic education. The articles are organized into four main areas covering ideas, debates, evidence, and case studies. The first part provides some definitions of childhood, work, exploitation and education. The second part provides a review of changes in policy attitudes at an international level and presents some of the classical views in both the compulsory education and fertility debates. The cases of India, China, Java and Nepal are considered. The third part examines cases of children working in rural and urban settings, evidence of the importance of primary education for economic development, the relationship between school and work during childhood, and the different reasons why children may be unable to attend school. The final part of the book presents examples of how basic education for working children has been approached in several parts of the world. Suggestions for further reading and a resource section of relevant books, articles, and other materials that can be obtained from academic sources and international agencies is included. (AA)
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- 1995
8. Issues in Planning and Implementing National Literacy Programmes.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning., Carron, G., and Bordia, A.
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The following papers were produced by participants and resource persons on specific issues of planning, management and implementation of literacy and post-literacy strategies: "People's Participation and Mobilization: Characteristics of the Literacy Campaigns in China" (Yanwei); "Strategies for Mobilization and Participation of Volunteers in Literacy and Post-Literacy Programmes: The Case of Nicaragua" (Grigsby); "Motivating the People to Participate in Literacy and Complementary Education Work in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" (Niun); "Organizing a Mass Literacy Campaign: The Case of Iraq" (Sulyman); "Structures and Linkages for Involvement of Political Leadership in the Ethiopian Mass-Literacy Campaign" (Mammo); "Decentralization of Educational Administration for Literacy Programmes: The Case of Kenya" (Kebathi); "Programmes with Focus on Women's Involvement: The Case of India" (Dighe); "Language and Literacy: The Planning of Literacy Activities in Multilingual States" (Ryan); "Planning and Management of Post-Literacy Programmes" (Bordia); "Decentralization of Resource Structures for Literacy and Post-Literacy: The Case of Indonesia" (Napitupulu); "Innovative Methods in the Use of Mass Media: Utilizing Television for Functional Literacy" (Rafe-Uz-Zaman); "Training of Literacy Personnel: Experience of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific" (Chiba); "Designing a System of Evaluation and Monitoring for Literacy and Post-Literacy Programmes" (Dave); "Learner Evaluation as an Instrument for Improving Qualitative Aspects of Literacy Programmes: The Case of the United Republic of Tanzania" (Lasway); "Impact of Parents' Literacy on School Enrollments and Retention of Children: The Case of Nepal" (Kasaju, Manandhar); "Planning Literacy and Post-Literacy Programmes for the Implementation of Basic Education: The Case of Brazil" (Moreira); "Co-ordination between School Education and Literacy and Post-Literacy Programmes" (Caillods, Carron); and "Integrating Literacy and Post-Literacy Activities and Basic Services" (Ahmed). A list of workshop participants and workshop agenda are appended. (MN)
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- 1985
9. Social Security.
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This group of articles discusses a variety of studies related to social security and retirement benefits. These studies are related to both developing and developed nations and are also concerned with studying work conditions and government role in administering a democratic social security system. (SSH)
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- 1983
10. Employment.
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This series of articles presents a variety of studies related to employment opportunities for the disabled, stimulating economy and employment, and new job creation. These studies are related to both developed and developing countries and are also concerned with the international division of labor. (SSH)
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- 1983
11. Working Conditions.
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This series of articles cites a variety of sources and synthesizes a number of studies on the working conditions and the welfare of workers from several countries. (SSH)
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- 1983
12. Getting things done: bureaucratic and entrepreneurial approaches to the practice of participatory water management reforms in Brazil and India.
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Tankha, Sunil and Fuller, Boyd
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STAKEHOLDERS , *WATER utilities , *ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Abstract
Based on field investigations of initiatives to increase stakeholder participation in water management in Brazil and India, this paper provides insights into the practice of water sector reforms. Looking at the pace of reforms across both countries, we find that the process of creating institutions to facilitate stakeholder participation is proceeding rapidly but greater attention is required on administrative reforms and capacity building. We find that the supply and demand of participation opportunities is often mismatched, and that participation reforms in the water sector may follow two very different paths: the bureaucratic and the entrepreneurial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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13. Inflation Stalks Emerging Bonds, Stoking Demand for Refuge.
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Villamil, Justin
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PRICE inflation ,BONDS (Finance) ,INTERNATIONAL competition ,COVID-19 pandemic ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) - Abstract
QRYSYHT0G1L6 (Bloomberg) -- As the global economy rebounds and commodity prices hit multi-year highs, emerging-market investors are seeking refuge in the one area that offers protection from inflation concerns. "Markets are betting loose central bank policy, pent-up demand, and accelerating growth expectations will create a perfect storm for inflation." Keywords: AFRICA; ALLTOP; ASIA; BON; BRAZIL; BUSINESS; CMD; CONS; CONSS; COS; FRX; INDIA; INDUSTRIES; LATAM; MARKETS; MEX; NORTHAM; SKOREA; WORLD; WWTOP EN AFRICA ALLTOP ASIA BON BRAZIL BUSINESS CMD CONS CONSS COS FRX INDIA INDUSTRIES LATAM MARKETS MEX NORTHAM SKOREA WORLD WWTOP As the global economy rebounds and commodity prices hit multi-year highs, emerging-market investors are seeking refuge in the one area that offers protection from inflation concerns. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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