Educating Amaretch: Private school for the poor and the new frontier for investors

Economic Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 37-43

  Tooley, James ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34250757651     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: 14680270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2007.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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