Education is improving in Brazil. The average years of education has almost doubled over the last 20 years, as has the … language performance over the last decade. These gains stem from the federal government's priority attention to education … quality gap to a first-rate education for its children. It provides detailed recommendations for strengthening the performance …

of the education provided in ECA countries than to problems of access. A central argument of the book is that ministries … of education are constrained in a number of ways from effectively managing their education and training sectors. The … makes it difficult for education ministries to address the legacy of central planning, which emphasizes centralized …

than from physical factor accumulation to drive growth. The book argues that higher education is failing to deliver skills … for growth and research for innovation because of widespread disconnects between higher education institutions and other … skill and research users and providers. These disconnects undermine the very functioning of the higher education system. The …