Do poverty dynamics explain the shift to an informal private schooling system in the wake of free public primary education in Nairobi slums?

London Review of Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-17

  Oketch, Moses ^a   Mutisya, Maurice ^b   Sagwe, Jackline ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Free primary education; Informal schools; Kenya; Nairobi; Poverty dynamics; Slum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859514104     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14748460.2012.659056     Document Type: Article

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