Undoing the apartheid legacy: Pro-poor spending shifts in the South African public school system

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-77

  Gustafsson, Martin ^a   Patel, Firoz ^b  

^a National Department of Education

^b Department of Education ^*  (South Africa)

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