@inbook{252b2054413c4e52b7ea3a2a62bf7090,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "Higher education throughout the world has become increasingly important in the decades closing the 20th and beginning the 21st centuries. This is nowhere more true than in the so-called mature economies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in which higher education has been a vital component of democratic civil societies, an engine of economic growth and a principal vehicle for the advancement of economic mobility and social justice.",
keywords = "High Education, High Education Policy, High Education System, Human Capital, Student Loan",
author = "Johnstone, \{D. Bruce\} and Pedro Teixeira and Rosa, \{Maria Jo{\~a}o\} and Hans Vossensteyn",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2008, Springer.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4020-4660-5\_1",
language = "English",
series = "Higher Education Dynamics",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "1--18",
booktitle = "Higher Education Dynamics",
address = "Netherlands",
}