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In an increasingly open and integrated world, competition has become a central preoccupation of the higher education subsector. With the collaboration of global financial institutions and development agencies, neoliberalism—an economic paradigm that favors a free-market economy and decreased government involvement—has swept the world in recent decades. The competitive forces that accompany the global free-market economic system impact every level of the higher education subsector in significant ways. Combined with the impact of globalization and the development of the worldwide “knowledge economy,” these competitive forces have resulted in the global competition phenomenon that is currently reshaping the higher education subsector.
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Portnoi, L.M., Bagley, S.S., Rust, V.D. (2010). Mapping the Terrain: The Global Competition Phenomenon in Higher Education. In: Portnoi, L.M., Rust, V.D., Bagley, S.S. (eds) Higher Education, Policy, and the Global Competition Phenomenon. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106130_1
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