Professions in an International Perspective: Opening the Box
Globalization has fundamentally expanded the scope and practice of the professions, especially in emergent economies. Rapidly developing markets in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and some other middle-income countries have created new demands for professional expertise and services in both public and private sectors – even as the neoliberal turn in the Western world has questioned welfare state principles, and when austerity...