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The economics of elementary education in India : the challenge of public finance, private provision, and household costs /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mehrotra, Santosh K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; 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