Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s

Giacomin, Valeria; Jones, Geoffrey; Salvaj, Erica

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Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s

dc.contributor.author	Giacomin, Valeria
dc.contributor.author	Jones, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.author	Salvaj, Erica
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-29T18:08:45Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-29T18:08:45Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from a recently developed oral history database, the study shows that more than three-quarters of such leaders invested in education as a non-profit activity. The article explores three different types of motivations behind such high levels of engagement with education: values driven, context focussed, and firm focussed. The article identifies significant regional variations in terms of investment execution, structure, and impact. In South and Southeast Asia, there was a preference for long-term investment in primary and secondary education. In Africa and Latin America, some initiatives sometimes had a shorter-term connotation, but with high-profile projects in partnerships with international organisations and foreign universities. In Turkey, there was heavy focus on training and the creation of universities. The article concludes by examining the impact of this investment, comparing Chile and India especially. It discusses issues such as the paucity of financial data and the challenges of comparing different types of educational spending, which make robust conclusions hard, but does suggest that although such spending did not resolve major educational roadblocks across the emerging world, it represented a positive overall social gain	es
dc.format.extent	32 p.	es
dc.identifier.citation	Business History, 2019	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1675641	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11447/3490
dc.language.iso	en	es
dc.subject	Business history	es
dc.subject	Economic history	es
dc.subject	Oral history	es
dc.subject	Education	es
dc.subject	Emerging markets	es
dc.subject	Reputation	es
dc.subject	Philanthropy	es
dc.subject	CSR	es
dc.title	Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s	es
dc.type	Article	es
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