Grant disbursals and school-based management interventions are expensive interventions that have recently received growing attention from policy-makers despite their mixed success at delivering improvements in educational outcomes in a cost-effective way. This paper reports results from a...

This essay focuses on higher education in India and argues that the role of state should be drastically reduced in provision, funding and monitoring if we are to ensure good quality facilities for higher education in India. It is argued that these activities should be left to market based...