The scale of this 'brain drain' is staggering. As demographer B. Lindsay Lowell and geographers Allan Findlay and Emma Stewart point out in their research, nearly one in 10 tertiary-educated adults (those with some university or post-secondary schooling) born in the developing world — between a third and half of the developing world's science and technology personnel — now live in the developed world.

This Policy Brief outlines the current position and puts forward an agenda for OECD policy makers under the following headings:
• quality and recognition;
• access and equity;
• financing and cost;
• using cross-border higher education to build capacity;
• policy coherence.

From Poverty to Power is essential reading for anyone involved in change processes around the world. A new take on development for the 21st century, Oxfam International's new book provides critical insights into the massive human and economic costs of inequality and poverty and proposes realistic solutions.

The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands was established in 2001 by the Annenberg Foundation to advance public understanding of and appreciation for democracy and to address serious issues facing the country and the world.
Among the goals of the Sunnylands Trust is improving civics education and understanding of democratic institutions. In furtherance of that mission, the Trust creates and distributes print, online and video materials on the Constitution to provide schools and institution more...

This is a new workspace on "IT social outsourcing":- the outsourcing of IT services to social and development enterprises in developing countries.

This includes both local IT social outsourcing (e.g. from large urban organisations to rural enterprises), and the global offshoring of IT services contracts from industrialised-country companies to social enterprises in the global South ("IT fair trade").

The workspace seeks to draw together a group of practitioners and researchers to develop k more...

This book published by the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development, and written by a number of authors writing from different parts of the world, ventures into the issues confronting women-owned SMEs (WOEs) in respect of knowledge and skills development: "The inspiration for the book was a special session on Women Entrepreneurship and ICT: Policy & Programme Implications for Women SMEs in Training, Advocacy Strategy and Growth, hosted jointly by IKED and the G more...

The focus of this report published by the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development is on the growing importance of skills upgrading in SMEs, coupled with the search for a comprehensive policy approach to meet the new needs and opportunities in this area: "Emphasis is placed on the diversity of SMEs, ranging from the vast community of relatively stable and mature firms to the more limited group of high-tech and/or potentially fast-growing categories of firms whi more...

Depuis la sortie, au mois de mai 2007, de l’avis du Conatel (Conseil National de Télécommunication), les Fournisseurs d’accès à Internet locaux s’inquiètent de leur devenir sur le marché local. Pourquoi cette inquiétude? Est-elle justifiée? Seraient ils victimes d’une fausse interprétation programmée par le Conatel lui même concernant la publication de son avis et les modalités/conditions d’autorisation d’utilisation des fréquences WiMAX?

Use of migration tax as an instrument for financing development expenditure in poorer countries has received renewed attention recently and is evolving as an important subject of research in development economics. This paper discusses a related issue where the revenue collected by taxing skilled and unskilled migrants moving from poor to rich countries can help raising the level of human capital in the source country. The paper provides an unifying analysis for two distinct strands of literature more...

The annual regional networking and knowledge-sharing event organized by infoDev and ChileIncuba attracted over 150 participants from countries across and beyond the region. 31 July 2007: "The conference highlighted the importance and potential of business incubation in the Latin American and Caribbean region, both as an industry to promote and support entrepreneurship, and as an instrument for reaching broader economic growth and knowledge economy goals.

infoDev and ChileIncuba jointly organi more...