This seminal volume offers a systematic analysis of the factors, rationales, and evolving forms of private philanthropic engagement in education across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Providing a critical and nuanced examination of private philanthropy’s role in education, the volume features case studies from Lebanon, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, furthering debate at the intersection of philanthropy and education policy. Across nine chapters, contributors examine philanthropic foundations including the Lemann Foundation in Brazil, Grupo Luksic in Chile, Fundación Perez Companc in Argentina, and European philanthropic foundations active in sub-Saharan Africa.
The volume brings together diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, including network analysis, documentary and archival analysis, interviews, institutional theory, Resource Dependence Theory, Bourdieusian frameworks, and critical policy analysis. It offers insights and directions for future research for scholars, researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, NGOs, INGOs, and regional and international organizations working on education in the Global South.
ISBN: 9781003670056
Recommended citation: Ridge, N., da Silva, R., & Khamitkhanova, A. (Eds.). (2026). Private philanthropy and education in the Global South: From service delivery to governance (1st ed.). Routledge.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003670056
Access: Freely available online (Open Access)