Directed Reading
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1- What is the education puzzle the authors are pointing to?
Many poor people think that school being boring. Schools are available. Poor people
can’t have ability to go to school.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND WARS
2- Assuming that education is good (this is a necessary assumption) what is the debate
around education about?
Aid education : governments ought to, or know how to, intervene.
3- What is the implicit assumption made when we posit that education is good? Is this
assumption empirically verified (i.e., does data reflect this)? Who is responsible for
these empirical finding?
Yes it is verified. According to UNICEF, between 1999 and 2006, enrolment rates in
primary school in sub- Saharan Africa increased from 54 percent to 70 percent.
sponsored by the UnitedbNations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), the goal of improving the quality of education
The Demand Wallah’s Case
