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Stephen Kosack
Education of Nations [PDF ebook]
How the Political Organization of the Poor, Not Democracy, Led Governments to Invest in Mass Education

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What causes a government to invest–or not invest–in poor citizens, especially mass education? In The Education of Nations, Stephen Kosack focuses on three radically different developing countries whose developmental trajectories bear little resemblance to each other–Brazil, Ghana, and Taiwan–and offers an elegant and pragmatic answer to this crucially important question.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780199995967 ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2572269 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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