Service provision for the poor : public and private sector cooperation /

The articles in this volume were presented at the fifth annual Berlin Workshop, held in July 2002, and sponsored by InWEnt-Capacity Building International, Germany, established in 2002 through a merger of the German Foundation for International Development and Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, and the Wor...

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Corporate Author: Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH
Other Authors: Kochendörfer-Lucius, Gudrun, ed, Pleskovic, Boris, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2004
Series:Berlin workshop series 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Gudrun Kochendr̲fer-Lucius and Boris Pleskovic
  • Opening addresses: Making services work for poor people: a scholar's perspective / Wolf-Dieter Eberwein
  • Keynote addresses: Why is a world development report on making services work for poor people needed? / Nicholas H. Stern
  • Poverty in Russia / Boris Nemtsov
  • The role of altruistically motivated organizations in making services work for poor people: The experience of the private not-for-profit health sector in Uganda / Daniele Giusti
  • basic services - a basic right / Jeremy Hobbs
  • The Madrasa Early Chilhood Programme in East Africa / Kathy Bartlett
  • The role of the private sector: Evidence from a study of vouchers for private schooling in Colombia / Michael Kremer
  • The rural private practitioner / Hema Viswanathan
  • The rol of local governments: Delivering infrastructure: a strategic framework / Junaid K. Ahmad
  • Employment of farmers and poverty alleviation in China / Yuzhao Wang
  • Incentives and innovations: Getting health services to the poor: incentives, efficiency, and health system performance / Orvill Adams and William Savedoff
  • Bolivia's plan for achieving education for all goals / John Newman
  • Rushing to help the poor through participation may be self-defeating / Jean-Philippe Platteau
  • Modes of financing: Tanzania's experience with education / Mwatumu J. Malale
  • How aid modalities influence the effectiveness of public expenditures in developing countries: a bilateral donor perspective / Olav H. Seim
  • Financing development / Thomas Wollenzien
  • Conclusion: Making services work for poor people / Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka
  • Appendixes: 1. Program
  • 2. Participants.