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World, University,
Class, and Identity
Radosław Rybkowski
In 2009, the World Bank published a book by Jamil Salmi, The Challenge of Establishing World-
Class Universities. The author is a prominent Moroccan education economist, who graduated from
the French Grande École ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales),
and holds a master’s degree in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh
and a Ph.D. degree in Development Studies from the University of Sussex (UK). After working for
some time at the National Institute of Education Planning in Morocco, in 1986, he has joined the
World Bank where he ...