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Adjusting Inequality: Education and Structural Adjustment Policies in Tanzania

FRANCES VAVRUS
Harvard Educational Review July 2005, 75 (2) 174-201; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.75.2.565v0213145413t5
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