Research Catalog

Title

Capacity building in economics education and research / François Bourguignon, Yehuda Elkana, and Boris Pleskovic, editors.

Author

Scaling Up Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research (2005 : Central European University)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Bourguignon, François.
• Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012.
• Pleskovic, Boris.
• World Bank.

Description

xi, 352 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Economists > Training of > Developing countries > Congresses
• Economics > Study and teaching (Higher) > Developing countries > Congresses
• Economics > Research > Developing countries > Congresses

Note

• The Central European University and the World Bank jointly organized a conference entitled "Scaling Up Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research : Lessons Learned and Future Directions," which took place at the CEU campus in Budapest, Hungary, on June 14-15, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Keynote address : disciplines of social sciences : separation or cooperation? / Janos Kornai -- Lessons in capacity building from the Open Society Institute / William Newton-Smith -- Teaching and research in modern economics in the Russian federation : the experience of the new economic school / Gur Ofer -- Creating a market-oriented research and education institution in a transition economy : the experience of the China center for economic research at Peking University / Justin Yifu Lin -- Comments / Marek Dabrowski -- Comments / Jeffrey Miller -- Comments / Ugo Pagano -- Innovation, imitation, and adaptation : the experience of 15 years of upscaling Hungarian higher education in economics / Liszlo Csaba -- Capacity building and policy impact : the experience of the global development network / Ramona Angelescu and Lyn Squire -- The experience of AERC in research, capacity building, and the development of collaborative training programs / William Lyakurwa -- The economics education and research consortium / Robert Campbell -- Comments / Tom Coupe -- Comments / Alan Gelb -- Comments / Sergei Guriev -- Accelerating poverty reduction in South Asia by scaling up economics education and policy research / Shantayanan Devarajan, Manuela V. Ferro, Shekhar Shah and Priya Shyamsundar -- Capacity building in economics education and research : a note on the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean / Mauricio Cardenas and Guillermo Perry -- Supporting capacity building for economics education and research in Africa / Benno Ndulu, Michael Crawford and Peter Materu -- Economics education and research in the East Asia and Pacific region : experience and directions / Homi Kharas -- Capacity building in modern economics in the Caucasus and Central Asia / Ulrich Hewer -- Developing graduate economics education from scratch : the case of the Central European University / John S. Earle -- CERGE-EI : the American-style PhD program in economics for transition economies / Jan Svejnar -- Comments / John P. Bonin -- Comments / Mauricio Cardenas -- Comments / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Why American University - Central Asia should develop an economics MA program / Ellen S. Hurwitz -- The quantity and quality of higher education in transitional economies / Jong-Wha Lee -- Capacity building in economic policy research : outcomes and future steps / Jeffrey Fine -- The experience of the Swedish government in capacity building in Russia and Eastern Europe / Eva Sundquist -- Scaling up capacity building to underserved regions / Regina Yan.

ISBN

• 9780821365953
• 0821365959

OCLC

• ocn123416882
• 123416882
• SCSB-5924383

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries