Government subsidies fund low-cost private schools in Pakistan

Pakistan is subsiding entrepreneurs and charities to set up low-cost private schools in an effort to make up a yawning gap in education. Around half the children in one of the provinces involved are not in school, and illiteracy rates are high. The project pays around $3 per child per month to organisations setting up new low-cost schools, and statistics from 2016 indicate that the program in Sindh province has enabled the creation of 150 primary schools with nearly 15,000 students and 346 teachers.