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Title Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers in education : case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon, editors
Published Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 186 pages) : illustrations
Series Directions in development. Human development
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
Contents Public-private partnerships in education: an overview / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Quentin Wodon -- The effectiveness of franchises and independent private schools in Chile's national voucher program / Gregory Elacqua, Dante Contreras, and Felipe Salazar -- Returns to schooling and vouchers in Chile / Harry Anthony Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou -- When schools are the ones that choose: policy analysis of screening in Chile / Dante Contreras, Sebastián Bustos, and Paulina Sepúlveda -- Education vouchers in Colombia / Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, and Juan E. Saavedra -- The performance of decentralized school systems: evidence from Fe y Alegría in República Bolivariana de Venezuela / Hunt Allcott and Daniel E. Ortega -- Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying -- Comparing the performance of faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon -- Assessing the performance of Madrasas in rural Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury, and Amit Dar -- Does money matter?: the effect of private education expenditures on academic performance in the Republic of Korea / Changhui Kang -- Comparing the cost of education at public, private, and faith-based schools in Cameroon / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon
Summary While public-private partnerships in education in the United States have received a lot of attention, research on such partnerships elsewhere has been limited--even though such partnerships have been steadily gaining prominence, particularly in developing countries. Aiming to fill this gap, this book presents fresh, technically sound empirical evidence on the effectiveness and cost of various public-private education partnerships from around the world, including voucher programs and faith-based schools. The evidence on the impact in terms of school performance, targeting, and cost of public-priv
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Educational vouchers -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Privatization in education -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Church schools -- Developing countries -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Finance.
Church schools
Educational vouchers
Privatization in education
Developing countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Barrera Osorio, Felipe.
Patrinos, Harry Anthony.
Wodon, Quentin.
ISBN 9780821379776
0821379771
0821379763
9780821379769