Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research

, by Bourguignon, Francois; Elkana, Yehuda; Pleskovic, Boris

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ISBN: 9780821365953 | 0821365959
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Copyright: 3/1/2007

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This book presents papers from the conference on 'Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research,' which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus. It includes contributions from key researchers, academics and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries that identify and brainstorm on capacity building challenges.

Keynote address : disciplines of social sciences : separation or cooperation?	p. 13
Lessons in capacity building from the Open Society Institute	p. 29
Teaching and research in modern economics in the Russian federation : the experience of the new economic school	p. 41
Creating a market-oriented research and education institution in a transition economy : the experience of the China center for economic research at Peking University	p. 65
Comments	p. 77
Comments	p. 84
Comments	p. 89
Innovation, imitation, and adaptation : the experience of 15 years of upscaling Hungarian higher education in economics	p. 95
Capacity building and policy impact : the experience of the global development network	p. 109
The experience of AERC in research, capacity building, and the development of collaborative training programs	p. 135
The economics education and research consortium	p. 161
Comments	p. 190
Comments	p. 195
Comments	p. 198
Accelerating poverty reduction in South Asia by scaling up economics education and policy research	p. 207
Capacity building in economics education and research : a note on the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean	p. 219
Supporting capacity building for economics education and research in Africa	p. 243
Economics education and research in the East Asia and Pacific region : experience and directions	p. 255
Capacity building in modern economics in the Caucasus and Central Asia	p. 267
Developing graduate economics education from scratch : the case of the Central European University	p. 277
CERGE-EI : the American-style PhD program in economics for transition economies	p. 301
Comments	p. 317
Comments	p. 323
Comments	p. 326
Why American University - Central Asia should develop an economics MA program	p. 331
The quantity and quality of higher education in transitional economies	p. 333
Capacity building in economic policy research : outcomes and future steps	p. 341
The experience of the Swedish government in capacity building in Russia and Eastern Europe	p. 345
Scaling up capacity building to underserved regions	p. 349
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