Trading Away Human Rights? The GATS and the Right to Education: A Legal Perspective

Global Neoliberalism and Education and Its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-101

  Devidal, Pierrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891858     Document Type: Chapter

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