Centralized Decentralization: Education and Inequality in Tanzania

• In Event: Bureaucracy, Decentralization, and Corruption in Africa

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use the case of the education sector in Tanzania to show how within a decentralized system, centralized education policies lead to a system that prevents the representation and promotes the marginalization of certain ethnic groups.

Authors

• Alma Bezares Calderon, Whittier College

• Piper Lowinger, Whittier College

• Spencer VanDerStarren, Whittier College