Join Professor Tahib Andrabi as he discusses his recent paper on the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Co-written with Jishnu Das of the World Bank and Asim Ijaz Khwaja of Harvard University, the authors document the phenomenal rise of the private sector in Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle-class and poorer families.

• What are the key elements in the rise of enrollment of private schools?
• What are the limitations of the private school system?

About the Author

Tahir Andrabi is Associate Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Professor Andrabi is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In his current research, Professor Andrabi analyzes the rise of private and religious schooling and issues of school choice in rural Pakistan. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at the London School of Economics, and a consultant for the World Bank. He is currently directing a World Bank funded project on the quality of primary education in rural Punjab.

Speakers

• Tahib Andrabi
  Department of Economics, Pomona University
• Christine Fair, Moderator
  U.S. Institute of Peace

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