Anuradha De

Maharashtra is further down the road towards universalisation of secondary education than most Indian states, and this positive picture is reflected through secondary data on enrolment, teacher qualifications, pass percentages in Board results and so on. It also scores highly on equity—three-fourths of the students are in government or government-a...

Unlabelled: The Public Report on Health (PRoH) was initiated in 2005 to understand public health issues for people from diverse backgrounds living in different region specific contexts. States were selected purposively to capture a diversity of situations from better-performing states and not-so-well performing states. Based on these consideration...

A bottom-up view of the health conditions and services in six states - three performing and three not-so-well performing ones - was arrived at through a study by a multidisciplinary team with varied experiences in health research. This paper presents the results of a Public Report on Health that was initiated in 2005 to understand public health iss...

Including abstract, graphs, references. In the early 1990s, large numbers of children in India remained out of school. International commitments to achieve education for all (EFA) globally meant that India was an important case for donors. India was pressed to accept aid for primary education, and agreed with some reluctance. Although subsequent do...

RECOUP is a research programme which seeks to improve the outcomes of education for the poor and the disadvantaged. Economic and market outcomes are an important part of the study, but focus is on non-market outcomes as well. While there is ample evidence that education have many positive outcomes on earnings, skills, fertility, health and empowerm...

The 1990s saw a surge in parental demand for education which prompted a new phenomenon, the growth of small fee-charging private schools for the less privileged. While this development has been welcomed by education bureaucrats, there has been little research on these schools, which often because they remained 'unrecognised' even missed statistical...

Coming a decade after the first Public Report on Basic Education (PROBE), this report is written from the perspective of those who despite yearning for good quality education find themselves excluded from learning and acquiring decent education. The data is based on the findings of a survey conducted in 2006, along the lines of an earlier survey co...

It is widely accepted that there is an ac ute shortage of resources in the education sector in India. Economic reforms and associated requirements of fiscal discipline have aggravated the situation. By contrast, however, official sources claim that significant progress has been made in financing education. This paper examines whether, and in what w...