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Education Policy in Developing Countries
Paul Glewwe (Ed.)
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Description for Education Policy in Developing Countries
Paperback. Surveying many aspects of education - from administrative structures to the availability of health care to parent and student incentives, this book features contributors who synthesize an impressive diversity of data, paying attention to the gross imbalances in educational achievement that still exist between developed and developing countries. Editor(s): Glewwe, Paul. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 line drawings, 36 tables. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications. Education Policy in Developing Countries rights this wrong, taking stock of twenty years of research to assess what we actually know-and what we still need to learn-about effective education policy in the places that need it the most. Surveying many aspects of education - from administrative structures to the availability of health care to parent and student incentives - ... Read more
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications. Education Policy in Developing Countries rights this wrong, taking stock of twenty years of research to assess what we actually know-and what we still need to learn-about effective education policy in the places that need it the most. Surveying many aspects of education - from administrative structures to the availability of health care to parent and student incentives - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226078717
SKU
V9780226078717
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About Paul Glewwe (Ed.)
Paul Glewwe is professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and for thirteen years before that was a research economist at the World Bank. He is the author or coeditor of several books, most recently Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam.
Reviews for Education Policy in Developing Countries
"Education Policy in Developing Countries raises the bar in terms of what qualifies as a high-quality study. It goes in-depth into what are perhaps the most important and promising education policy reforms, providing an unbiased and exhaustive review of the evidence and thus a new benchmark that hopefully will be followed in all subsequent research on education policy in developing ... Read more