Re: World Bank studies says 1.3% study in Madrasses
^^ As if you ever backed your claims! It is a series of papers by a couple of Harvard professors:
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~akhwaja/papers/madrassa_CER_dec05.pdf
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~akhwaja/papers/madrassas_beyondcrisis_final.pdf
An excerpt from the 2nd study:
Contrary to popular claims, madrassa enrollment in Pakistan is low, accounting for less than 1 percent of total enrollment. In proportion to overall enrollment it has not increased during the 1990s nor since the events of 9/11 and beyond. Moreover, of the less than 1 percent of families that have at least one child in a madrassa, three fourths have another child in a public or a private school. Belief about the high revalence of madrassa enrollment in Pakistan is an example of conventional wisdom in the classic Galbraithian sense—we accept these flawed estimates simply because they are acceptable. However, under a more demanding empirical lens, they fail to hold up. The reality is unrelated to conventional wisdom.
And if you do not know how to read an academic paper, an explanation by one of the authors:
The Madrassa myth | Dani Rodrik’s Blog
I wonder if the Dawn blogs are more reliable than those studies.