1st Edition

Education Outcomes and Poverty in the South A Reassessment

By Christopher Colclough Copyright 2012
240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Education has an extraordinarily important role to play in efforts to eliminate poverty world-wide. This book reveals the nature and complexity of these relationships and provides indispensible pointers to the kinds and extent of policy changes that are required. Based on highly innovative research that addressed common research questions across four countries in Africa and South Asia, the... Read more

1. Introduction Christopher Colclough  2. Girls’ schooling and women’s autonomy in South Asia: revisiting old debates with new data from India and Pakistan Roger Jeffery Feyza Bhatti, Claire Noronha and Patricia Jeffery  3. Schooling, Rights and Urban Poverty: young people's narratives of citizenship in two sub-Saharan cities. Madeleine Arnot, Leslie Casely-Hayford and Fatuma Chege  4. Increased expectations, unrealised gains: Education outcomes for young people with disabilities in India and Pakistan Nidhi Singal: Feyza Bhatti and Shehryar Janjua with Neeru Sood  5. Skill acquisition and its impact upon lives and livelihoods in Ghana, India, and Pakistan Robert Palmer, Roland Akabzaa, Shehryar Janjua, Kenneth King and Claire Noronha  6. Economic Returns to Schooling and Cognitive Skills - An analysis of India and Pakistan Monazza Aslam, Anuradha De, Geeta Kingdon and Rajeev Kumar  7. Changing forms of provision and impact on schooling outcomes in Ghana and Pakistan Shailaja Fennell, Gideon Agbley, Rabea Malik and Roland Akabzaa  8. The Practice of Partnership: Aid and Education Policy in India and Kenya Christopher Colclough, Anuradha De, and Andrew Webb  9. Outcomes Reassessed Christopher Colclough  Annex 1: Qualitative Methods in the RECOUP Projects Roger Jeffery and the RECOUP team  Annex 2: The RECOUP Household Surveys Feyza Bhatti and the RECOUP team

Biography

Christopher Colclough, Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development and Director, Centre for Education and International Development, University of Cambridge, UK.