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The economics of elementary education in India [electronic resource]

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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, t

Title The economics of elementary education in India [electronic resource] : the challenge of public finance, private provision, and household costs / editor, Santosh Mehrotra.
Publisher New Delhi : Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications
Creation Date 2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
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Contents
Preface
1 - What Ails the Educationally Backward States? The Challenges of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs
2 - The Impasse Broken: Mapping Change in Elementary Education in Uttar Pradesh
3 - Bihar: Including the Excluded and Addressing the Failures of Public Provision in Elementary Education
4 - The Cost and Financing of Universalising Elementary Education: A Silver Lining in Rajasthan?
5 - Universalising Elementary Education in Madhya Pradesh: Can the Successes of Decentralised Governance Offset the Problems of Public Finance, Private Provision and Private Cost?6 - Assam: The Challenge of Financing Universal Elementary Education in a Poor State
7 - Cost and Financing of Elementary Education in West Bengal
8 - Private Costs and Public Financing of Elementary Education in a High-Achiever State: Tamil Nadu
About the Editor and Contributors
Extent 1 online resource (329 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718492905171
MARC RECORDS
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