Achieving balance in decentralization: A case study of education decentralization in chile

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-225

  Parry, Taryn Rounds ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Decentralization; Education; Education finance; Privatization

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALISATION; EDUCATION SYSTEM;

CHILE;

EID: 0030843478     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(96)00094-0     Document Type: Article

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