Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very
different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine …

The book offers an overview of international examples, studies, and guidelines on how to
create successful partnerships in education. PPPs can facilitate service delivery and lead to …

In view of generally accepted claims of poor state sector quality in many countries of the
Global South, the low-fee private sector has often been posited as “the poor's best …

The growth and increasing popularity of 'low-fee'private schooling across many parts of India
has attracted much research and policy attention. This paper broadens the discussion by …

The distribution of children in different school-types and regions in Pakistan suggests that
access and opportunities in education are not evenly accessible for many children …

In 2001, when I first began studying low-fee private schooling, there were almost no
published studies in the scholarly literature on the topic. Technical reports on the use of …

This paper presents an analysis of children's proficiency in English, reading and maths on
the basis of a citizen-led household survey run by the Annual Statistics of Education Report …

This paper analyzes the parent decision-making processes underlying school selection in
Nepal. The analysis is based on primary survey and focus group data collected from parent …

Slums account for around a third of the population of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and are thought to
be growing rapidly. But there is little in the research literature about education of children …

While the recent emergence of private schooling targeting socially and economically
disadvantaged groups in India has been noted, the broader educational discourse in India …