We examine the impact of India's District Primary Education Program (DPEP) introduced in mid-1990s. We exploit the fact that the DPEP was targeted towards primary age children and was introduced in phases to different districts in India, and many of the districts never got the program to...

This paper examines the quality of primary education provision in Cambodia using a ‘political settlements' framework developed at the University of Manchester. The framework characterises Cambodia as a ‘hybrid' settlement with a weak dominant party and predatory administration, albeit with...