Global: Beyond the ABCs: Higher education and developing countries

This new CGD working paper analyzes an often neglected facet of development-higher education. While higher education was in vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, it subsequently fell out of favor. The various development paradigms, from basic needs to rural development, structural adjustment and policy reform, had little place for higher education; and the recent emphasis on institutions also pays little heed to this subject.