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Fundamental changes in Brazilian economic policy in the mid-1990s have dramatically slowed inflation and set the stage for sustained growth. These gains provide the opportunity to turn to other social and economic problems overshadowed for years by the country's macroeconomic problems. Among the most important issues on the agenda is education. Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil offers a frank and thorough assessment of the country's educational performance and the resulting social costs. It identifies necessary reforms and the barriers to reform. The book's 18 studies examine a wide variety of key issues regarding the economics of education in Brazil.
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Brazil lags behind all but the poorest countries in Latin America on most indices of educational development. David Plank argues that the backwardness of Brazilian public education can be traced to a
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Analyzes the economic, political, and social dimensions of changes in Latin America toward more open economies and more democratic governance.
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