A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government, NGO and Private Rural Primary Schooling in Pakistan

Autor: Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Sajid Kazmi, Zainab Latif
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: The European Journal of Development Research. 17:199-223
ISSN: 1743-9728
0957-8811
DOI: 10.1080/09578810500130823
Popis: This paper draws on the experience of private sector and NGO schools to identify lessons for the government sector, the main provider of basic education in Pakistan. In a principal-agent framework, we compare the institutional effectiveness of rural primary schooling delivery by the government with the NGO and private sectors. Our main findings are that the NGO schools were the most successful in many respects and that ‘good management’ and/or ‘good leadership’ are the key factors for sound schooling. Further, if meaningful ‘participation’ is to be achieved in government schools, the power relations between administrators, teachers and parents need to be addressed. S'appuyant sur des experiences d'ecoles du secteur prive et d'ONG, cet article identifie des lecons pour le secteur gouvernemental, le principal pourvoyeur d'education de base. Par le biais d'un cadre ‘agent-principal’, nous comparons l'efficacite institutionnelle du gouvernement dans l'offre des ecoles primaires rurales, a celle des ONG et du ...
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