The expansion of mass education in twentieth century latin america: A global comparative perspective

Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 359-396

  Ewout, Frankema ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Humanities   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Education; Grade distribution; Latin america; Public spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349089912     PISSN: 02126109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0212610900000811     Document Type: Article

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