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Ⅳ Alternative Imperative: International Assistance

With all these imperative forces to promote inbound flow of foreign talent,

developed countries in East Asia actually are also responsible for providing
official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries. In this divided
world, effective international assistance to Global South is getting important and
necessary (Heyneman & Lee, 2016). In spite of continuous efforts from the Global

North, we also witnessed an increasing request for the cultivation of local high-
level workforce in the low-income countries so as to accumulate human capacity.
Increasing empirical evidence has suggested that developing countries urgently
need local talent to implement and support domestic sustainable developments.

Ⅳ.Ⅰ A Divided World with Continuous Effort

There has been an argument that a global gap between the global North and
South is widening due to the prominence of global neo-liberalism and economic
liberalization. It has been said that Global North gains their developmental drive at
the cost of developing countries for cheaper labor force, high pollution industry and

unfair trade relationship (such as WTO) (Spring, 2009). Some countries in Africa,
Asia or Latin America have suffered from poverty, high illiterate rate, polluted
environment and low productive industry. Moreover, the increasing inequality
in knowledge production is also notable. As Czerniewicz (2013) has insisted, in

addition to financial and technical issues, ‘the values and practices shaped by the
Northern research agenda contribute just as much to the imbalance’. Due to the rise
of greater globalization or even westernization, higher education is even seen as a
symbol of ‘knowledge imperialism’ invading the local academic and intellectual

network. In reviewing the dynamic relationship between higher education and

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