Affording the unaffordable: Cost sharing in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Peabody Journal of Education

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 88-106

  Oketch, Moses O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542623030     PISSN: 0161956X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327930PJE7803_05     Document Type: Article

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