Opportunity foregone
Subtitle: education in Brazil
By: Nancy Birdsall and Richard H. Sabot, editors.
Contributors: Birdsall, Nancy.; Sabot, R. H.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Education -- Brazil.; Education -- Economic aspects -- Brazil.; Educational equalization -- Brazil.; Education -- Brazil -- Evaluation.; Wages -- Effect of education on -- Brazil.; Education and state -- Brazil.
Other titles: Education in Brazil
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"This volume traces its origins to the symposium 'Education, Economic Growth, and Inequality in Brazil' ... held in Rio de Janiero from March 24-27, 1991."--P. [iii].