The Progress of Education in India A Quantitative Analysis of Challe
This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's recent progress in the education sector. India, as one of the world's fastest growing economies, currently enjoys what is termed a 'demographic dividend' meaning that, compared to most oth
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Vani Kant Borooah
The Progress of Education in India A Quantitative Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities
Vani Kant Borooah School of Economics & Politics University of Ulster Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-54854-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54855-5
ISBN 978-3-319-54855-5 (eBook)
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Of learning as of virtue, it may be affirmed, that it is at once honoured and neglected. Whoever forsakes it will for ever look after it with longing, lament the loss which he does not endeavour to repair, and desire the good which he wants resolution to seize and keep. Samuel Johnson: Idler #94 (2 February 1760)
In memory of my mother, Priyalata Borooah (1924–2015)
PREFACE
The theme of this book is education, and in large part higher education, in India. Its main purpose is to chart the progress of education in India between 2007 and 2014. Consistent with my métier as an academic economist, its tenor is analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of data. These data are from two sources: the National Sample Surveys carried out under the aegis of the Government of India’s Ministry of Statistics and the Indian Human Development Survey conducted jointly by the National Council of Applied Economic Research and the University of Maryland. In interrogating these data I have drawn heavily upon the methodology of economics and statistics to shed light on a selection of educational outco
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