*3.3. South Asia and the Pacific Region*

The public finance strategies used in the developed countries in the Pacific region are part of the context for developing privatized financing strategies, shifting the cost of higher education from taxpayers to students. Other nations in the region have moved cautiously toward loans. They use research to inform strategic plans and government investment to develop new institutions and programs. A new wave of cross-national studies reveals cultural adaptations and social resistance to the market model in regional countries engaged in the global economy as newly industrialized nations.
