01631nam a2200313 a 4500 EDZ0000092348 StDuBDS 20171010092620.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120712s2012 enk fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199949540 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS LC98 .K67 2012 370.91724 23 Kosack, Stephen, 1978- The education of nations : how the political organization of the poor, not democracy, led governments to invest in mass education / [electronic resource] Stephen Kosack. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 13, 2012). Education and state Developing countries Cross-cultural studies. Education Economic aspects Developing countries Cross-cultural studies. Poor Education Developing countries Cross-cultural studies. Print version 9780199841653 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841653.001.0001 ddc BK 37558 37558