Is low-fee private primary schooling affordable for the poor? Evidence from rural India

Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-258

  Härmä, Joanna ^a   Rose, Pauline ^b  

^a ESSPIN ^*  (Nigeria)

^b UNESCO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881979364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857930699.00021     Document Type: Chapter

References (33)

1. Akyeampong, K. (2009), 'Public-private partnership in the provision of basic education in Ghana: challenges and choices', Compare, 39 (2), 135-149.
2. Andrabi, T., J. Das, A. Khwaja, T. Vishwanath and T. Zajonc (2007), Pakistan. Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools (LEAPS): Insights to inform the education policy debate, Washington, DC: World Bank.
3. Fischel, W. (2002), 'An Economic Case Against Vouchers: Why Local Public Schools are a Local Public Good', National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Occasional Paper No. 54, 25 June 2002.
4. Härmä, J. (2008), 'Are low-fee private primary schools in rural Uttar Pradesh, India, serving the needs of the poor?', unpublished DPhil Thesis, University of Sussex.
5. Härmä, J. (2011), 'Low cost private schooling in India: is it pro poor and equitable?', International Journal of Educational Development, 31, 350-356.
6. Härmä, J. and F. Adefisayo (forthcoming), 'Scaling up: the challenges facing lowfee private schools in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria', in P. Srivastava (ed.), Low-Fee Private Schooling: Aggravating Equity or Mediating disadvantage?, Oxford: Oxford Comparative Education Series, Symposium Books.
7. Hulme, D. (2003), 'Conceptualizing chronic poverty', World Development, 31 (3), 403-423.
8. Jeffery, R., C. Jeffrey and P. Jeffery (2001) 'Social and political dominance in western UP: A response to Sudha Pai', Contributions to Indian Sociology, 35 (2), 213-235.
9. Kadzamira, E.C., D. Moran, J. Mulligan, N. Ndirenda, K. Nthara, B. Reed and P. Rose (2004), Country Studies. Malawi: Study of Non-State Providers of Basic Services, Birmingham: University of Birmingham, School of Public Policy, International Development Department.
10. Kingdon, G. (1996), 'The quality and efficiency of public and private Schools: A case study of urban India', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 58 (1), 55-80.
11. Ladd, H., E. Fiske and N. Ruijs (2009), Parental Choice in the Netherlands: Growing Concerns about Segregation, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
12. Levin, H. (1999), 'The public-private nexus in education', The American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (1), 124-137.
13. Lewin, K. (2007), The Limits to Growth of Non-Government Private Schooling in Sub Saharan Africa, CREATE Pathways to Access Monograph No. 5, available at: http://www.create-rpc.org/publications/pathwaystoaccesspapers.html (accessed 1 July 2008).
14. Lieten, G. (2003), 'Development Priorities: Views from Below in UP', in R. Jeffery and J. Lerche (eds), Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh European Perspectives, New Delhi: Manohar.
15. McEwan, P.J., M. Urquiola and E. Vegas (2008), 'School choice, stratification, and information on school performance: Lessons from Chile', Economia, 8 (2), 1-26.
16. Muralidharan, K. (2006), 'Public-private partnerships for quality education in India', Seminar, 565.
17. Muralidharan, K. and M. Kremer (2006), Public and Private Schools in Rural India, available at: http://scripts.mit.edu/~varun_ag/readinggroup/images/d/dc/Public_ and_Private_Schools_in_Rural_India.pdf (accessed on 5 October 2007).
18. Nambissan, G. (2010), 'The global economic crisis, poverty and education: a perspective from India', Journal of Education Policy, 25 (6), 729-737.
19. Oketch, M. and M. Ngware (2010), 'Free primary education still excludes the poorest of the poor in urban Kenya', Development in Practice, 20 (4/5), 603-610.
20. Patrinos, H.A., F. Barrera-Osorio and J. Guáqueta (2009), The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education, Washington, DC: The World Bank.
21. Rose, P. (2009), 'Non-state provision of education: evidence from Africa and South Asia', Compare, 39 (2), 127-134.
22. Rose, P. (2010), 'Achieving education for all through public-private partnerships?', Development in Practice, 20 (4&5), 473-483.
23. Salman, A. (2010), 'Liberate to learn. Education vouchers in Pakistan', Economic Affairs, 30 (3), 35-41.
24. Srivastava, P. (2006), 'Private schooling and mental models about girls' schooling in India', Compare, 36 (4), 497-514.
25. Srivastava, P. (2007), 'For philanthropy or profit? The management and operation of low-fee private schools in India', in P. Srivastava and G. Walford (eds), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries, Oxford: Symposium Books.
26. Srivastava, P. (2010), 'Public-private partnerships or privatisation?: questioning the role of the State as financier, regulator, and manager of education in India', Development in Practice, 20 (4/5): 540-553.
27. Thapa, R. (2009), Vouchers for better education: A solution?, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Enduring Questions Brief No. 6, 3ie: New Delhi.
28. Tooley, J. and P. Dixon (2006), '"De facto" privatisation of education and the poor: implications of a study from sub-Saharan Africa and India', Compare, 36 (4), 443-462.
29. Tooley, J. and P. Dixon (2007), 'Private education for low-income families: Results from a global research project', in P. Srivastava and G. Walford (eds), Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries, Oxford: Symposium Books.
30. Tooley, J., P. Dixon, Y. Shamsan and I. Schagen (2010), 'The relative quality and costeffectiveness of private and public schools for low-income families: a case study in a developing country', School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 21 (2), 117-144.
31. UNESCO (2009), Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Watkins, K. (2004), 'Private education and "Education For All" - or how not to construct an evidence-based argument: a reply to Tooley', Economic Affairs 24 (4), 8-11.
33. World Bank (2009), Global Monitoring Report: A Development Emergency, Washington, DC: The World Bank.