Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research
by Bourguignon, François; Pleskovic, Boris; Elkana, YehudaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-27
Publisher(s): World Bank Publications
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Summary
This book presents papers from the conference on 'Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research,' which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus. It includes contributions from key researchers, academics and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries that identify and brainstorm on capacity building challenges.
Table of Contents
| Keynote address : disciplines of social sciences : separation or cooperation? | p. 13 |
| Lessons in capacity building from the Open Society Institute | p. 29 |
| Teaching and research in modern economics in the Russian federation : the experience of the new economic school | p. 41 |
| Creating a market-oriented research and education institution in a transition economy : the experience of the China center for economic research at Peking University | p. 65 |
| Comments | p. 77 |
| Comments | p. 84 |
| Comments | p. 89 |
| Innovation, imitation, and adaptation : the experience of 15 years of upscaling Hungarian higher education in economics | p. 95 |
| Capacity building and policy impact : the experience of the global development network | p. 109 |
| The experience of AERC in research, capacity building, and the development of collaborative training programs | p. 135 |
| The economics education and research consortium | p. 161 |
| Comments | p. 190 |
| Comments | p. 195 |
| Comments | p. 198 |
| Accelerating poverty reduction in South Asia by scaling up economics education and policy research | p. 207 |
| Capacity building in economics education and research : a note on the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean | p. 219 |
| Supporting capacity building for economics education and research in Africa | p. 243 |
| Economics education and research in the East Asia and Pacific region : experience and directions | p. 255 |
| Capacity building in modern economics in the Caucasus and Central Asia | p. 267 |
| Developing graduate economics education from scratch : the case of the Central European University | p. 277 |
| CERGE-EI : the American-style PhD program in economics for transition economies | p. 301 |
| Comments | p. 317 |
| Comments | p. 323 |
| Comments | p. 326 |
| Why American University - Central Asia should develop an economics MA program | p. 331 |
| The quantity and quality of higher education in transitional economies | p. 333 |
| Capacity building in economic policy research : outcomes and future steps | p. 341 |
| The experience of the Swedish government in capacity building in Russia and Eastern Europe | p. 345 |
| Scaling up capacity building to underserved regions | p. 349 |
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