Investing in the qualification of human resources is acknoledged as essential to promote countries’ economic and social development, particularly those in the developing world. It is therefore a common practice for different States to directly finance their students, through scholarships for example, to improve their qualifications in other countries, to ensure then that they return to their country, increasing...
The results of “globalization”, understood here in its contemporary form, inseparable from the changes created in the last decades of the XX century, are far from being unanimously seen as merely positive. It is acknowledged, for example, that inequality and the centralization of wealth in the world tend to intensify, and it is in this perspective that we affirm that peripheral countries tend to lose out to cen...