Since trade liberalization reduces revenues from duties and taxes, the available resources for public investments are negatively affected.
Issues relating to the size of manufacturing firms are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of selected Asian economies.
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which open educational resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution.
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve health care, allow open government, and solve environmental issues.
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) work with a client base that is for the most part excluded from the formal banking system.
A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia.
To mitigate, develop, and improve the lives of those vulnerable to intense natural disasters, climate change, and food insecurity, many agencies are funding and implementing diverse activities from reconstruction to rehabilitation.
Strengthening Rural Livelihoods provides a useful and balanced review of the influence that mobile phones and the Internet can have on supporting the livelihoods of rural people, and particularly farmers in Asia.
This book has been designed for the orientation and training of specialists in open and distance learning methods in Asia.
For observers elsewhere in the world, the most striking feature of distance education (DE) in Asia is the mega-universities and mega-schools that have added many millions to the global tally of distance learners in recent decades.