CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Shabir, Waqas |
|---|---|
| Title | Reforming the Public Sector through Public-Private Partnership (PPP): The Case of School Education in Punjab, Pakistan |
| Summary | The public sector across the globe witnessed great transformation since 1980s; large bureaus and unilateral decision-making process gradually transformed into disaggregated agencies and collaborative decision making with the partnership of private and voluntary sector. The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models are introduced to reform the public sector as they reduce costs and improve public service delivery. The adoption of PPP models requires rule of law, stable institutions, thriving private sector and strong civil society. Even though Pakistan lacks these preconditions, it embarked on the journey to reform the school education sector by forging PPP in its largest province, Punjab, in 2015. This thesis attempts to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the PPP initiative to improve student enrollment and quality of education in low performing public primary schools. The statistical analysis reveals mixed results and confirms the efficiency of the initiative; however, the effectiveness of the initiative is yet to be proved. There is a need for further in-depth study and analysis to assess the effectiveness of this initiative. Nonetheless, taking such an initiative to reform and reorganize the public sector in the complicated legal and constitutional context of Pakistan is encouraging. |
| Supervisor | Sitter, Nick |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/shabir_waqas.pdf |
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