Dr. Stasavage covered the education spending of forty-four African countries from 1980-1996 using data compiled by UNESCO. He concludes, "…while the move to democracy has not triggered a wholesale turnaround in economic policies, the evidence does show that multiparty electoral competition has been associated with greater government spending on education, and on primary education in particular."
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David Stasavage is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics. For more information on his research in political economy issues, please visit his website http://personal.lse.ac.uk/stasavag/
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