tailieunhanh - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN REPORT 2012 STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

This report attempts to assess the potential impacts on the economy of a number of plausible scenarios for international higher education enrolments over the next five years. It provides a brief background to the sector (Section 2) as well as an assessment of its current economic impact (Section 3). It briefly reviews recent international and domestic factors impacting on the sector, and examines a range of indicators of current and likely future enrolment trends, based on student visa grants and actual enrolment data, as well as feedback from within the sector | UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPS UNCTAD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA REPORT 2012 STRuCTURAL TRANSFORMATION - - - AND SUSTAINABLE -DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA ii Economic Development in Africa Report 2012 NOTE Symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. Mention of such a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Material in this publication may be freely quoted or reprinted but acknowledgement is requested together with a reference to the document number. A copy of the publication containing the quotation or reprint should be sent to the UNCTAD secretariat. UNCTAD ALDC AFRICA 2012 UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No. ISBN 978-92-1-055595-1 ISSN 1990-5114 Copyright United Nations 2012 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Economic Development in Africa Report 2012 was prepared by a research team consisting of Charles Gore and Norbert Lebale team leaders Patrick Osakwe Bineswaree Bolaky and Marco Sakai. The work was completed under the overall supervision of Taffere Tesfachew Director Division for Africa Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes UNCTAD. The report benefited from the comments of the following who participated in a peer review discussion of a draft of the report Professor Frans Berkhout Director Institute for Environmental Studies and Amsterdam Global Change Institute Mr. Richard Bridle Economist International Institute for Sustainable Development Dr. Monika Dittrich Independent Scientist Heidelberg Ms. Tamara Fetzel Institute of Social Ecology Vienna Ms. Lucy Kitson Economist International Institute