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In this issue, we focus on what a knowledge economy really means within the context of development. We also look at the process of technical assistance and capacity building within the development community, questioning whether we actually do the right things.

Trinidad and Tobago has experienced increasing social problems relating to its youth population despite the economy's improved performance. The report aims to uncover and analyze key issues facing the youths, explore a rationale for investing in youth development activities, review current services for youth, examine the existing and proposed policy and legislation relating to youth and capacity for its implementation, and propose interventions to reduce the risks faced by youths and increase the potential for social and human capital development.

This paper presents a synthesis of the empirical literature on intra household time use in developing countries. It discusses the importance of studying time allocated to various activities--market work for wages, work on the family enterprise, and different kinds of housework--from a policy standpoint.

About 20,000 early childhood development centers provided day care for and prepared for primary school more than 1 million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care facilities reached 23,690 by the end of 1999. The authors analyze the effect of child care costs on households' behavior in Kenya.

The Cuban educational system has long enjoyed a reputation for high quality. This paper highlights ways in which the Cuban educational system, despite the dismal economic picture of the past decade, adopted features that research has identified as characterizing a high-quality education system.

The study reviews tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa, in light of persistent pressures to expand access to education, despite declining quality, and mere funding possibilities. It identifies multiple symptoms for this fundamental imbalance, such as overcrowded, and poorly equipped learning facilities, declining research output, and irrelevant curricula, as some of the most notorious. The argument questions how Africa might improve the balance between access to tertiary education and funding, without sacrificing quality of education.

Korea's development paradigm is now at a crossroads. Most of the impressive economic growth of Korea in the past has been underpinned by strong capital accumulation and growth in labor inputs, to which the role of the government as nationwide resources mobilizer and manager was critical. The background, facades, and the dynamism of the knowledge revolution and an emerging knowledge-based economy(KBE) are well known. Increasing scientific understanding is making knowledge and information one of the most important factors for competitiveness.

This is a report on a workshop entitled Reaching Out to the Child held on February 21-22, 2000 in New Delhi. The objective of the workshop was to initiate multi-sectoral discussions across the government and non-government sectors as a first step towards establishing a constituency for the development of an integrated, comprehensive, and convergent approach to child development. This report presents the outcomes of the consultations that were held during the workshop.

The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality, emphasizing the roles of education on: establishing an analytical framework, that allows interaction between education, and labor market; examining the evolution of earnings inequality, following the macroeconomic, and educational policies of the 80s, and 90s; exploring best practices for the use, and allocation of public educational resources, in light of foreseeable increases in earnings inequality; and, identifying those areas of educational public policy, which impact st

The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality, emphasizing the roles of education on: establishing an analytical framework, that allows interaction between education, and labor market; examining the evolution of earnings inequality, following the macroeconomic, and educational policies of the 80s, and 90s; exploring best practices for the use, and allocation of public educational resources, in light of foreseeable increases in earnings inequality; and, identifying those areas of educational public policy, which impact st