Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America: The Emergence of a New Market Under Nafta?

by Clyde W. Barrow, J. Mallea, S. Didou-Aupetit

Book Overview

Since the mid-1970s, economic and educational developments in Canada, Mexico, and the USA have been influenced by two parallel trends: (1) the resurgence of glob- al economic competition and (2) the active promotion of knowledge-intensive, serv- ice based economies. Both trends have been reinforced by the liberalisation of inter- national trade under the rubric of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402018622
• ISBN13: 9781402018626
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.2" x 9.6"