The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning
- ISBN-10
- 019883568X
- ISBN-13
- 9780198835684
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 231
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Samuel Hickey, Naomi Hossain
Description
This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes.
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