Author Description

In The Early 1960s, Mexico And South Korea Were Both Equally Undeveloped Agrarian Societies. The Development Strategies Used By Each Country Resulted In Dramatically Different Results, With South Korea By The Turn Of The Century Having One Of The Best Educational Systems In The World And Being A World-class Producer Of High Tech Products. Mexico, However, Was Still Graduating Less Than Half Of Its Secondary School-age Students And Bogged Down In Assembling Products Owned By Foreign Corporations. Mark Hanson's Incisive New Monograph Concentrates On Comparing And Contrasting These Countries And Answering The Wider Question Of Why Some Third World Nations Have Developed Economically And Educationally Significantly Faster Than Others. This Book Will Be Of Interest To Policy Makers And Academics Looking For Ways To Accelerate Development Rates In Third World Countries, As Well As Students And Researchers Engaged With Comparative International Development, Globalization And Industrialization. Cover -- Routledge Studies In Development Economics -- Economic Development, Education And Transnational Corporations -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- About The Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- 1 Knowledge Transfer And National Development -- Globalization And Knowledge Migration -- Conceptual Assumptions About Development -- Issues Of Theory -- Objectives Of The Study -- Structure Of The Book -- 2 Stages Of National Development -- Learning And Development Curves -- Concluding Section -- 3 National Strategies Of Knowledge Transfer -- South Korea And The Guiding Role Of Government -- Mexico And Growth Of The Maquiladora Industry -- Mexico's Development Triangle -- Mexico's Revised Strategy: Squeezing The Maquilas -- Maquilas And The Illusion Of Knowledge Transfer -- Technology Leakage -- Cemex: A Mexican Story Of Industrial Success -- Concluding Section -- 4 Educational Reform And National Development -- National And Educational Transitions -- Investing In Education -- Higher Education And Investments In Science And Technology -- Tnc Impact On Research And Development -- Management And The Industrialization Process -- Concluding Section -- 5 Conclusions, Analysis And Lessons Learned -- A Brief Review -- The Globalization Environment -- Knowledge-transfer Cornerstones -- Lessons Learned -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index. Mark Hanson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [146]-151) And Indexes.