A Dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan (Record no. 57086)

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Classification number 370.9547
Item number A6D4
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Personal name Andrabi, Tahir
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Title A Dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Washington, D. C.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc World Bank
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006
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Extent 35 p.
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Title Policy Research Working Paper, no. 4066
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Summary, etc This paper looks at the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Using new data, the authors document the phenomenal rise of the private sector in Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle-class and poorer families. The key element in their rise is their low fees-the average fee of a rural private school in Pakistan is less than a dime a day (Rs.6). They hire predominantly local, female, and moderately educated teachers who have limited alternative opportunities outside the village. Hiring these teachers at low cost allows the savings to be passed on to parents through low fees. This mechanism-the need to hire teachers with a certain demographic profile so that salary costs are minimized-defines the possibility of private schools: where they arise, fees are low. It also defines their limits. Private schools are horizontally constrained in that they arise in villages where there is a pool of secondary educated women. They are also vertically constrained in that they are unlikely to cater to the secondary levels in rural areas, at least until there is an increase in the supply of potential teachers with the required skills and educational levels.<br/><br/>https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/8871
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Education - Pakistan
9 (RLIN) 106246
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Education, Private schools - Pakistan
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Personal name Das, Jishnu
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Personal name Khwaja, Asim Ijaz
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Classification part A6D4
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Item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Vikram Sarabhai Library Vikram Sarabhai Library General Stacks 04/05/2009 Rack 26-B / Slot 1219 (0 Floor, East Wing)   370.9547 A6D4 162834 04/09/2009 Books