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Ep. 09: The Profit Motive in Education

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There a Difference in the Quality of Education?

I've been here in Delhi since 1997 since CCS started and I've seen every year long queues for admission. There's no area of our life except for education where you see the persistent shortage of seats in schools. So tell me speaking as an economist when you ban the profit motive what do you expect to play out in that sector? How does it change the incentives and what are the consequences of that?

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