Public provisioning for elementary education in India / Praveen Jha ... [et al.]. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2008. - 454 p. cm. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-444) and index.

Public provisioning of education: some contemporary issues -- Tracking progress at the state and district levels -- Fiscal crisis of states and role of centrally sponsored schemes -- Analysis of public expenditure on elementary education: 1993-94 to 2005-06 -- Norms for government financing of elementary education -- Bottlenecks in the planning and budgetary processes: the case of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan -- Possibilities and challenges of sustaining educational financing.

9780761936664 (hard back)

2008013971


Education, Elementary--Finance.--India
Education, Elementary--Economic aspects--India.

LA1152 / .P78 2008

379.112 JHA