Primary School Literacy: A Case Study of the Educate a Child Initiative

Abbas Moosvi
Additional contact information
Abbas Moosvi: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

No 2022:51, PIDE Knowledge Brief from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: According to the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement survey of 2018-19, approximately 51 percent of the population of Pakistan has successfully completed their primary level education � a figure that rose 2 percent from 2013-14. Balochistan was the worst performing province in this regard, with figures actually declining from 33 percent in 2013-14 to 31 percent in 2018-19�and the COVID-19 pandemic has likely caused further damage. Punjab, on the other hand, was the best performing, with a completion rate of just 57 percent�approximately 3 out of 5. Assuming that education and literacy are public goods, these statistics indicate a looming crisis for Pakistan: which has not managed to formulate a comprehensive strategy or framework around which children may become literate and empower themselves economically.

Keywords: Primary School; Literacy; Child Initiative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://file.pide.org.pk/uploads/kb-051-primary-sc ... child-initiative.pdf First Version, 2022 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pid:kbrief:2022:51

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in PIDE Knowledge Brief from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Khurram Iqbal ().