The economics of elementary education in India : the challenge of public finance, private provision and household costs
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The economics of elementary education in India : the challenge of public finance, private provision and household costs
Sage Publications, 2006
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Description
This volume discusses key aspects of the economics of the elementary education system in the poorer and educationally backward states of India, while also examining one high-achiever state-Tamil Nadu. Providing the first state-by-state analysis of major cost and financing issues, the book is based on data gathered from one of the most comprehensive surveys conducted in recent times in these states, which was specifically commissioned for this book. The survey covered 120,000 households and a thousand schools spread over 91 districts in eight states.
Written by leading educational economists, the original essays in this volume
- analyse the major cost and financing issues in elementary schooling in seven of the eight states surveyed-Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal;
- identify recent initiatives made by the governments of these seven states;
- systematically scrutinise the pattern of the public spending in elementary education;
- examine enrolment in government schools and the quality of education that they impart;
- study household expenditure on schooling-the costs to parents of sending children to school; and
- compare government schools with private schools, showing how the private sector has began to take over the what should be the responsibility of the government, particularly in the poorer states.
Table of Contents
Preface
What Ails the Educationally Backward States? The Challenges of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs - Santosh Mehrotra
The Impasse Broken: Mapping Change in Elementary Education in Uttar Pradesh - Ravi S Srivastava
Bihar: Including the Excluded and Addressing the Failures of Public Provision in Elementary Education - Anup K Karan and Pushpendra
The Cost and Financing of Universalising Elementary Education: A Silver Lining in Rajasthan? - Sunil Ray
Universalising Elementary Education in Madhya Pradesh: Can the Successes of Decentralised Governance Offset the Problems of Public Finance, Private Provision and Private Cost? - P R Panchamukhi
Assam: The Challenge of Financing Universal Elementary Education in a Poor State - Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Cost and Financing of Elementary Education in West Bengal - Tapas Majumdar
Private Costs and Public Financing of Elementary Education in a High-Achiever State: Tamil Nadu - Jandhyala B G Tilak and A M Nalla Gounden
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