Early Education for All is there a role for the private sector?

Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Woodhead, Martin ^a   Streuli, Natalia ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Group for the Analysis of Development Lima   (Peru)

Author keywords

Access; Education for all (efa); Equity; Finance; Governance; Private sector; Public private partnership (ppp); Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923009067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199922994.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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