Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

Location choice of ‘one teacher, one classroom’ non-formal primary schools pioneered by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is studied vis-à-vis its replication under government-managed Reaching-Out-of-School (ROSC) project using school Census data. Both types of schools have a statistical...

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Main Author: Asadullah, M.N.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2016
Subjects:
HB Economic Theory
HC Economic History and Conditions
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12180
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12180
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spelling um-183452017-11-21T06:23:46Z Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh Asadullah, M.N. HB Economic Theory HC Economic History and Conditions Location choice of ‘one teacher, one classroom’ non-formal primary schools pioneered by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is studied vis-à-vis its replication under government-managed Reaching-Out-of-School (ROSC) project using school Census data. Both types of schools have a statistically significant presence in poor sub-districts within a district. However, BRAC schools avoid pockets that lack public infrastructure and suffer from female illiteracy, while ROSC schools have greater presence in regions that have poor access to cities and roads. Moreover, ROSC schools better target regions that are under-served by government schools; the opposite is true for BRAC schools and state-recognised madrasas. Wiley 2016 Article PeerReviewed https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12180 Asadullah, M.N. (2016) Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh. Australian Economic Review <http://eprints.um.edu.my/view/publication/Australian_Economic_Review.html>, 49 (4). pp. 432-452. ISSN 0004-9018 http://eprints.um.edu.my/18345/
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topic HB Economic Theory
HC Economic History and Conditions
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HC Economic History and Conditions
Asadullah, M.N.
Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
description Location choice of ‘one teacher, one classroom’ non-formal primary schools pioneered by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is studied vis-à-vis its replication under government-managed Reaching-Out-of-School (ROSC) project using school Census data. Both types of schools have a statistically significant presence in poor sub-districts within a district. However, BRAC schools avoid pockets that lack public infrastructure and suffer from female illiteracy, while ROSC schools have greater presence in regions that have poor access to cities and roads. Moreover, ROSC schools better target regions that are under-served by government schools; the opposite is true for BRAC schools and state-recognised madrasas.
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author Asadullah, M.N.
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title Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
title_short Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
title_full Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
title_sort do pro-poor schools reach out to the poor? location choice of brac and rosc schools in bangladesh
publisher Wiley
publishDate 2016
url https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12180
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12180
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