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Development (USAID). These institutions had forged a partnership that made use of the university as a tool for reducing poverty, and created what I believe is a powerful model that can benefit even individuals who will never hold a degree. This is the uniquely powerful potential of universities in the work of developing human capacity.
This research focuses on the intersection of higher education and international development. I do not present higher education as an isolated solution for the global poverty epidemic; I do, however, believe that the evidence demonstrates ways in which higher education and knowledge can serve as a piece of the larger puzzle. Developing countries could greatly benefit from generating local solutions for local problems and thus begin to participate more fully in the global knowledge economy, as opposed to being relegated only to the role of consumers.