This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068] …

addressed in the utility approach is used. The two approaches are juxtaposed to examine how institutions such as caste and … religion mediate access and returns to education of men and women. The effort is to discuss whether, the capabilities approach … provides any advantage in addressing questions of inequity that may be mediated through such institutions. The main innovation …

Gives an overall view about the literacy rates of youth and adolescents in India. …

This paper examines factors affecting literacy and access to school education in West Bengal, India, and reports the … literacy, the significant variables were sex, caste and occupational status and village location. In the probit results for … statistically significant. In contemporary West Bengal, we argue, class barriers to school attendance have become less significant …

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …

specific policy / programme interventions to address gender issues in primary education. They have made an obvious difference …

A major challenge in achieving universal education lies in ensuring that girls who have missed the school bus or simply … got off the bus too early, can realise their right to quality, basic education. This paper reviews several key initiatives … in the last decade to reach out to out-of-school girls and young women in particularly difficult circumstances through …

, hunger, gender equality, education, child mortality, health, and water. Overall, we find evidence of dramatic achievements by …