This chapter outlines the circumstances in South Africa (SA) that led to the evolution of the profession of research management and administration (RMA) in the country. The public higher education (HE) sector has undergone significant change since 1994, and the RMA profession has struggled to...

This chapter outlines the circumstances that led to the evolution of the profession of research management and administration (RMA) in the UK, including some of the important drivers. While it is presented in the context of the UK research ecosystem as a whole, this is provided through a...

This chapter describes the research ecosystem’s development in Qatar from 2006 until the present day, a brief history of this development, and future development plans. The information provided is a snapshot of the entire research administration enterprise in the country and estimates the...

Like several of its neighbouring countries, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has seen a move away from an oil-based economy towards a knowledge-based economy in recent decades. Research productivity in the Kingdom is increasing quickly along with international collaborations. Nonetheless,...

The UAE only officially formed in December 1971, now has seven Emirates joined together as a nation under one President. Since its establishment as a sovereign, independent country around just 50 years ago, the UAE has accelerated advancement across numerous sectors at notable speed, and...

This part of the book has provided overviews of the current situation of research management and administration (RMA) in over 50 countries around the world provided by a total of 96 authors. Thirty-eight chapters cover individual countries from six continents, with a chapter bringing together...

This chapter discusses transformation and permanence in the Brazilian labour market since the 2000s. The analysis takes place in three stages. The first analyses the changes in Brazilian social stratification, promoted by the Workers' Party administrations (2003-2016). It is argued that a...

This chapter shows how multidimensional stochastic dominance techniques can be used to test growth pro-poorness when poverty is assessed using the joint distribution of income and of non-income well-being attributes. Main issues with respect to this exercise are related to the definition of the...

In Canada, the profession known as ‘research management’ elsewhere across the globe, is mostly commonly referred to as ‘research administration’ and encompasses activities and work associated with developing, administering, accounting for, and complying with sponsor requirements,...

Although the number of people living in absolute poverty is much lower in Europe than in most regions of the world, poverty still remains a key challenge. The key reason for this situation is the stable or increasing, as in the case of most countries, level of relative poverty incidence. The...