The education of nations [electronic resource] : how the political organization of the poor, not democracy, led governments to invest in mass education / Stephen Kosack.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.