How Can Education Help Latin America Develop?

Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-134

  Puryear, Jeffrey ^a   Goodspeed, Tamara Ortega ^a  

^a Partnership for Educational Revitalization (PREAL)   (United States)

Author keywords

development; economic growth; education; Latin America; learning; quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012185965     PISSN: 09749101     EISSN: 09752730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097491011000300104     Document Type: Article

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