Low quality education as a poverty trap

Type Working Paper
Title Low quality education as a poverty trap
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
URL http://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2011/wp252011/wp-25-2011.pdf
Abstract
The weak quality of education received by most poor children in South Africa
places them in permanent disadvantage relative to those attending the mainly
more affluent and better performing schools. This document draws from a large
number of studies undertaken for a major project and summarises this evidence,
which illustrating that low quality schools act as a poverty trap.

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