This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conce

Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country’s economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about educ

This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of educatio

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