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The New Geopolitics of Educational Aid

From Cold Wars to Holy Wars?

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Economics, Aid and Education

Part of the book series: The World Council of Comparative Education Societies ((CIEDV))

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Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s development aid to education in low-income countries was often provided on condition that recipient governments implemented a string of neo-liberal education reforms linked to structural adjustment policies and fiscal austerity.

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    Mario Novelli

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Novelli, M. (2013). The New Geopolitics of Educational Aid. In: Majhanovich, S., Geo-JaJa, M.A. (eds) Economics, Aid and Education. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-365-2_3

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