Developed countries increasingly compete for a pool of talented students from developing countries. This competition brings host countries to vertically differentiate their education programmes: some countries offer higher education quality and charge high tuition fees, while others provide a lower quality for lower tuition fees. This paper argues that the education quality of high-quality coun...

High-technology is an umbrella term for that branch of advanced technology which utilizes electronics. At ITC we are particularly concerned with developing countries, and this is realised through our education, consultancy, and research programmes directed towards the resource problems of such countries. For whatever reason, these countries have chosen to move away from traditional practices; t...

This paper considers some aspects of the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic adjustment in developing countries. First, the paper reviews the notion of the fiscal deficit in the particular context of developing countries. It then spells out the conditions under which the internal and external debts are sustainable and points out the role of the “twin deficits”. The paper then presents som...

Most countries in the developing world have experienced rising female labor force participation over the past twenty years (Heath and Jayachandran, forthcoming). This trend provides the backdrop for my research, which focuses on labor markets in developing countries, with an emphasis on gender. In particular, I study how firms select workers—and how workers select the firms in which they seek w...

Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the “brain drain” at the international level. Using a stylized model of education investment in a context of migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified frame...

Enterprise Resource Planning systems have been heavily adopted in developed countries in the past decade and most studies on ERP adoption and selection focuses on these countries. There is limited or no knowledge on ERP system adoption in developing countries in general and African countries in particular. With the emerging trend of ERP adoption in developing countries, how to select an adequat...

The current landscape of the information systems research literature concerned with developing countries is surveyed by examining a range of research articles published from 2000 onward. These are discussed in terms of the key challenges addressed, including the role of technology, and the methodological and theoretical approaches used. Prospects for future research are discussed, based on a co...

Background                                               Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common, yet curable childhood malignancy within the pediatric cancers; but in most developed and developing countries cost of cancer treatment in children with ALL is high. So, we specified the range of expenses for the treatment of pediatric cancer and compared the results in devel...