Primary education in sub-Saharan Africa - A moral issue, an economic matter, or both?

Comparative Education

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-53

  Daun, Holger ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; PRIMARY EDUCATION; RELIGION;

AFRICA;

EID: 0034005265     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050060027755     Document Type: Article

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