Tackling the largest global education challenge? Secular and religious education in northern Nigeria

World Development

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-92

  Antoninis, Manos ^a  

^a Education For All Global Monitoring Report   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Bivariate probit; Islamic education; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894494057     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.017     Document Type: Article

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