Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: The Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-274

  Alderman, Harold ^a   Kim, Jooseop ^b   Orazem, Peter F ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Korea Labor Institute   (South Korea)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Demand for schooling; Economic development; Educational finance; Privatization

Indexed keywords

COST; DESIGN; EDUCATION; PRIVATIZATION; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY;

BALOCHISTAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0037409441     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00051-1     Document Type: Article

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