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This book is the product of research collaboration between The Australian National University and Dhurakij Pundit University. It brings together new work, from a conference held in 2008 in Bangkok, on higher education financing by international experts on the issue from around East Asia.

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The contents are as follows: Issues and overview / Shiro Armstrong and Aaron Batten; Part one, 'Education and development: the role of higher education': Education and development: the role of higher education / Lawrence Summers; Financing higher education: lessons from economic theory and operational experience / Nicholas Barr; Finance, state capacity, privatisation and transparency in South-East Asian higher education / Anthony R. Welch; Part two, 'Experience in developed economies': The Australian university student financing system: the rationale for, and experience with, income-contingent loans / Bruce Chapman; Higher education policies and development: approaches to funding higher education in Japan / Motohisa Kaneko; Part three, 'Experience in East Asia': Student loan reform in China: problems and challenges / Wei Jianguo and Wang Rong; Recent developments in higher education in Indonesia: issues and challenges / Teguh Yudo Wicaksono and Deni Friawan; Strategies for financing higher education: the case of Thailand / Somkiat Tangkitvanich and Areeya Manasboonphempool; Thailand's student loans fund: an analysis of interest rate subsidies and repayment hardships / Piruna Polsiri, Rangsit Sarachitti and Thitima Sitthipongpanich; Income-contingent student loans for Thailand: alternatives compared / Bruce Chapman and Kiatanantha Lounkaew. Show less