Higher education finance is one of the main issues in the economic analysis of higher education systems. This book explores the basic theoretical foundations of cost sharing and the different forms of implementing it in higher education. The book also puts forth the relevance of the political and socio-economic context for the relative success of the adoption of cost-sharing. These aspects are analyzed by focusing in the Ethiopian higher education system, a system characterized by an elite enrollment pattern, since it has traditionally excluded the majority of potential students...