| Title : | Capacity building in economics education and research | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Yehuda Elkana, Editor ; François Bourguignon, Editor ; Boris. Pleskovic, Editor | | Publisher: | Washington DC : The World Bank | | Publication Date: | 2007 | | Pagination: | xi, 352 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 26 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 9780821365959 | | General note: | Includes bibliografical references | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Congresses
Developing countries
Economics -Study and teaching (Higher)
| | Class number: | 330.071 | | Abstract: | The development of the institutional capacity to create and evaluate economic policies remains a critical need-and constraint-in most transition economies if they are to complete the successful passage to fully functioning market economies. To take an active role in the transition process, economic policymakers, business leaders, government officials, and others need a thorough grounding in market-based economics. This requires strengthening economics education and providing support for qualified economists to teach economics at all levels and to carry out high-quality research and policy analysis. Although the education systems in a handful of countries have already risen to the challenge, in many other transition countries, the structure of educational and research institutes remains grounded in the Communist model. This paper presents findings from a comprehensive study assessing the state of economics education and research in 24 countries in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. While 20 countries were initially included because preliminary assessments showed that they lacked the capability to offer high-quality economics education, four additional countries-the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine-were included to highlight five centers of excellence that they already host. Based on the experience of these successful centers, the study's findings, and information gathered from a series of donor meetings in Berlin, New York, and Washington, D.C., this paper presents an approach to building new indigenous capacity for teaching and research on market-based economics in regions where the need is particularly critical-the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Southeast Europe. | | Contents note: | Introduction; Opening remarks; Opening remarkes; Keynote addres:Diciplines of social science:Separation or Cooperation?; Lessons of experience and future directions; Lessons in capacity building from the open society institute; Teaching and research in modem ecomomics in the Russian Federation: The experience of the New economics school; Creating a market-oriented research and education institution in a Transition Economy; The experience of the china centre for ecomomic research at peking University; Coments; Inovation ,imitation and adaption:The experience of 15 years of upcaling Hungarian Higher education in economis; Capacity building and policy impact:The experience of the global development network; The experience of AERC in research,capacity building and the development of collaborative training programs; The economics education and research consortium; Accelerating poverty reduction in south asia by scaling up economics education and policy research; Capacity building in economics education and research:A note on the experience of latin America and the Carribbean; Suporting capacity building for economics education and research in Africa; Economics education and research in the east Asia and Pacific Region:experience and directions; Capacity building in modern economics in he Caucasus and central Asia; Developing graduate economics education from scratch:the Case of the cental European University; CERGE-EI:The American-Style PhD Program in Economics for Transition Economics; Why American University-Central Asia Should Develop an Economics MA program; The quantity and quality of Higher education in transitional economies; Capacity building in economic polisy research:Outcomes and future steps; The experience of the Swedish government in Capacity building in Russia and eastern Europe; Scaling Up capacity building to Underserved regions. | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13274 |
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