Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. To provide background information for policy formulation, the ADB commissioned a series of thematic and country papers on trends and issues in the education sector.
Higher education is among the domains that has received attention.
This article highlights some features from the ADB paper on education financing in the region. The ADB has 37 developing member countries, which display considerable diversity. Populations range from just 7,000 in Nauru to 1,200,000,000 in China. Because of such diversity, few policy formulations can be uniformly applied to the whole of the Asian region. It therefore becomes necessary to identify particular policies that are appropriate for particular subregions, countries, and even provinces or districts.