Education management and performance after rural education finance reform: Evidence from Western China

International Journal of Educational Development

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 463-473

  Liu, Mingxing ^a   Murphy, Rachel ^b   Tao, Ran ^c   An, Xuehui ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d National Center for Education Development Research   (China)

Author keywords

Fiscal centralisation; Managerial power; Teacher incentive

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; STUDENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67650544805     PISSN: 07380593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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