“…Frequently, issues of importance to countries in the Global South are of little interest to top-ranked journals which publish works for privileged audiences predominantly in the Global North (Chavarro, Tang, & Ràfols, 2017;Nkomo, 2010). Yet, HRD scholars from the Global South can potentially play a significant role in the HRD and MLE field's conceptual and practical development through their research into the interaction between learning and education, and economic, social, national (c.f., Cho & McLean, 2017;Cunningham, Lynham, & Weatherly, 2006;Gedro & Hartman, 2016) and organization (c.f., Achoui, 2009;Cho, Lim, & Park, 2015;Pareek & Rao, 2008) development.…”