TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kosack,Stephen
TI  - The education of nations: how the political organization of the poor, not democracy, led governments to invest in mass education 
SN  - 9780199949540 (ebook) :
AV  - LC98 .K67 2012
U1  - 370.91724 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Education and state
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Education
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Poor
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - What causes a government to invest - or not invest - in poor citizens, especially mass education? In this book, Stephen Kosack focuses on three radically different developing countries whose developmental trajectories bear little resemblance to each other and offers an elegant and pragmatic answer to this question
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841653.001.0001
ER  -