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World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

( World Development Report, World Bank , 2003)

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This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.

The report focuses ...

World Development Report 2004, chapter 4: clients and providers

( World Bank , 2004)

Improving the welfare of poor people is the reason for providing public services. This chapter of the 2004 World Development Report asserts that to make these services work better, the interests of t...

Increasing client's power to scale up health services for the poor: the BAMAKO Initiative in West Africa

( Y. B. Camara; A. El Abassi; R. Knippenberg; F. Traore Nafo; R. Osseni; A. L. B. Soucat / World Bank , 2003)

This World Bank background paper reviews the experiences of the Bamako Initiative, which has focused on community involvement to improve health service delivery in West Africa. It discusses experienc...

User fees: the right to education and health denied

( P. Watt; R. Rowden / Global Campaign for Education , 2002)

This policy brief, prepared by the Coalition for Health and Education Rights for the UN Special Session on Children in 2002, argues that user fees continue to deny children’s rights to basic education...

Charting the path to the World Bank's "no blanket policy on user fees"

( G. Hutton / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2004)

This paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC), describes the rise of user fees as a means of financing health, education, and other public services during the 1980. It then ...