Shooting for the wrong target?: A reassessment of the international education goals for sub-Saharan Africa;¿Trabajando para lograr un objetivo equivocado? Una reasignación de los objetivos internacionales de educación para África Subsahariana

Revista de Economia Mundial

Volumn , Issue 27, 2011, Pages 95-116

  Johnston, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Economic Growth; Education; Millennium Development Goals; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955511008     PISSN: 15760162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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