Schooling, rights and urban poverty: Young people's narratives of citizenship in two sub-Saharan cities

Education Outcomes and Poverty: A Reassessment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 36-54

  Arnot, Madeleine ^a   Casely Hayford, Leslie ^b   Chege, Fatuma ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Associates for Change   (Ghana)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

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