Abstract:
Human capital development is one of the most essential
components to achieve economic growth.This study explores
the access to primary education in pakistan by finding the
gini coefficient and comparing with those of other South
Asian countries. The secondary data was achieved from World
Bank and it was found that the access to primary education
in pakistan was not very satisfying and the access to
education in the rural was found to be poorer than in urban
areas. The other South Asian countries also did not show
encouraging results to the access to education. The access
to education to male was better than females.The primary
attendance rate is also not very high which reflects the
need to invest more in primary education.The paper
reccomends public-private partnership to provide education
to the disadvantaged. Also the allocation of the GDP on
education needs to be improved and proper control
mechanisms developed to monitor the spending of funds. The
development and growth in the country needs to be pro poor
so that the disadvantaged can benefit the most from
economic growth and uplift their status in the society.As
primary education is the pre requisite for all other levels
of education austere measures need to be taken to improve
the attendance level and access to primary education in
Pakistan.
