The Market Characteristics, Comparative Advantages and Promotion Countermeasures of China’s Education Service Export

The article considers proper legislation as an essential prerequisite for actualization of NPOs comparative advantages. Restrictions imposed on NPOs are reasonable if they are compensated by benefits from greater trust. The rigidity of constrains and requirements should be optimized while accounting for peculiarities of a social medium, the state of the nonprofit sector, and the governments readiness to encourage the development of the latter. As empirical data suggests, Russian NPOs being on different stages of maturity need separate legal treatment. In the meanwhile, interests that prevail in the NPOs community are not always conducive to rapid changes.

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Principles of Evolutionary Modernization of Transition Economies

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-7-85-96 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 85-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. Rustamov

Keyword(s):

National Culture ◽

Transition Economies ◽

Transition Economy ◽

World Economic Forum ◽

Governance Mechanisms ◽

Beneficial Use ◽

Strategic Issues ◽

The World ◽

Comparative Advantages ◽

World Economic

The article considers strategic issues of modernization of the transition economy. The analysis is based on the methodology of the World Economic Forum where special attention is paid to the sequence of the transformation stages. The main conclusion is that modernization should combine implementation of the governance mechanisms with the beneficial use of comparative advantages of the national culture. In fact, modernization of the transition economy should be evolutionary. It is precisely this course of development that is relevant for Azerbaijan which has successfully upgraded its economy in the recent years.

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Measuring Service Quality in The Context of Higher Education in Vietnam

Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.33301/2013.15.03.05 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 77-90

Author(s):

Yen Nguyen Thi Hoang

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Service Quality ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Measurement Scale ◽

Education Service ◽

The Subject

This paper focuses on the understanding of service quality in the context of Vietnamese universities. It proposes an approach for measuring the quality of the higher education service provided by universities in Vietnam. Firstly, an exploratory study was conducted. Then, the set of items which were generated became the subject of a questionnaire that was then administered to 675 students of a Vietnamese university to determine the dimensions of higher education service quality in this context. The obtained results permit us to appropriate a measurement scale which is slightly different from the SERVQUAL scale widely known as the standard for measuring service quality. The results also show that tangible elements, responsiveness and assurance seem to be three specific dimensions of the higher education service of Vietnamese universities.

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