Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Banerji, Rukmini; Duflo, Esther; … - 2008
and gives these powers over resource
allocation, monitoring and management of school
performance. However, in a baseline … nationwide rural survey on educational
attainment of 7-14 year olds found that, even though most children are enrolled in school …, 35 percent of primary school
age children could not read a simple paragraph, and 41 percent could not do simple …