Service Provision for the Poor : Public and Private Sector Cooperation/Berlin Workshop Series 2004.

Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- OPENING ADDRESS: Making Services Work for Poor People: A Scholar's Perspective -- KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Why Is a World Development Report on Making Services Work for Poor People Needed? -- Poverty in Russia -- 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 -- Basic Services-A Basic Right -- The Madrasa Early Childhood Programme in East Africa -- The Role of the Private Sector -- Evidence from a Study of Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia -- The Rural Private Practitioner -- The Role of Local Governments -- Delivering Infrastructure: A Strategic Framework -- Employment of Farmers and Poverty Alleviation in China -- Incentives and Innovations -- Getting Health Services to the Poor: Incentives, Efficiency, and Health System Performance -- Bolivia's Plan for Achieving Education for All Goals -- Rushing to Help the Poor through Participation May Be Self-Defeating -- Modes of Financing -- Tanzania's Experience with Education -- How Aid Modalities Influence the Effectiveness of Public Expenditures in Developing Countries: A Bilateral Donor Perspect -- Financing Development -- CONCLUSION: Making Services Work for Poor People -- APPENDIXES -- 1. Program -- 2. Participants.

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