The education of nations how the political organization of the poor, not democracy, led governments to invest in mass education

What causes a government to invest - or not invest - in poor citizens, especially mass education? In this book, Stephen Kosack focuses on three radically different developing countries whose developmental trajectories bear little resemblance to each other and offers an elegant and pragmatic answer t...

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Main Author: Kosack, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2012, 2012
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