framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …

Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights …

The role of education in economic development has been recognised for quite some time in mainstream economic literature …. Divergence between the private and social rate of return from education is the rationale for intervention by the state in … schooling and better quality of workforce will lead to an increase in the rate of growth, further strengthening the case for …

relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources …

help overcome remaining demand-side barriers to enrollment. Nonetheless, the quality of education appears very poor across … the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional … the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education …

Early childhood education is a widely accepted term to describe a program aimed at providing all round development for … profit from schooling during this period. Enriched environment is to be provided for the receptive mind of the child. …

the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to …