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Reforming Higher Education in Latin America: Policy and Practice

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Jorge Balán
Jorge Balán*
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The Ford Foundation
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 228 - 246
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8. See, for instance, Roberto Rodríguez-Gomez and Armando Alcántara, “Multilateral Agencies and Higher Education Reform in Latin America,” Journal of Education Policy, 16, no. 6 (2001): 507–25; Claudio de Moura Castro, “The World Bank Policies: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't,” Comparative Education, 38, no. 4 (November 2002): 387–99; Carlos A. Torres and Daniel Schugurensky, “The Political Economy of Higher Education in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective,” Higher Education, 43, no. 4 (June 2002): 429–55.

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