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For-Profit Schools Serving the Educational Needs of the Poor: A Global Research and Dissemination Project

Project Leader(s)

James Tooley, Director
E.G. West Centre

Grantee(s)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Description

This project increased scholarly understanding and raised popular awareness about the educational needs of the poor in developing countries and how they can be served by free enterprise. The project focused on the widespread but little understood phenomenon of private schools for the poor.

Grant Amount:
$902,020
Start Date:
April 2003
End Date:
October 2005
Grant ID:
10382
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