UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

Figure UNESCO 2.6 SCIENCE (continued) REPORT
Western Europe, China and India attract four out of ten projects in education
Share of total projects (%)
Destination of FDI projects in education
Western
Europe
China and
India
Japan and
Asian Tigers
North
America
Latin
America
Eastern
Europe
Middle East
and North
Africa
Former
Soviet states Africa Oceania Total
Western Europe 8.6 7.6 5.2 4.3 2.2 2.4 4.0 1.8 2.2 0.9 39.2
China and India 0.7 0.9 0.8 0.5 0.9 0.2 2.0 0.1 1.1 0.1 7.1
Source of FDI projets in education
Japan and Asian
Tigers
2.3 3.0 2.0 1.5 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.3 11.8
North America 7.8 9.0 4.7 0.9 2.2 1.7 4.7 1.1 1.4 0.9 34.3
Latin America 0.1 0.7 0.1 – 0.1 – – – 0.1 – 1.1
Eastern Europe 0.2 – – 0.1 – – – 0.1 – – 0.3
Middle East and
North Africa
Former Soviet
states
0.5 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 – 1.2 – 0.1 – 2.7
– 0.1 0.1 – – – 0.1 0.1 – – 0.3
Africa – – – – – – 0.1 – 0.5 – 0.5
Oceania 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 – – 0.1 – – 0.1 1.1
Total 20.4 22.1 13.3 7.5 5.9 4.9 12.8 3.4 5.9 2.2
5.9%
Africa and Latin America attract the same share
of projects in education
22.1%
Share of projects in education destined for China and India
Education projects flowing to and from developing regions
KEY
Blue flows from
traditionally R&Dintensive
countries
to ‘new’ countries in
terms of R&D
Green flows from
‘new’ countries to
traditionally R&Dintensive
countries
Red flows between
‘new’ countries
Source: UNU-Merit
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