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  What works: serving the poor, profitably

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002

  This article, from the World Resources Institute, considers how the global market system could be expanded to provide direct benefits and opportunity to poor communities. There are nearly 4 billion people who live in relative poverty, forming a market which the article refers to as the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP).
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  Local governance, urban poverty and service delivery in Namibia

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This report focuses on challenges for improved service delivery in poor urban areas in Namibia. It uses two town councils as case studies. The objective of the study is to identify viable approaches to the delivery of housing, water, electricity, and sanitation – the inadequacy of which all currently have detrimental effects on the poor.
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  How does bribery affect public service delivery? micro-evidence from service users and public officials in Peru

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines the impact of bribery on public service delivery. It demonstrates how poor governance can affect greatly public service delivery, both directly through higher price, and indirectly through lower quality or quantity available.
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  Power sector reforms in Brazil and its impacts on energy, efficiency and research and development

  Global Development Network, 2004

  During the last decade several countries started the introduction of structural reforms within their electricity industry. For developing countries in particular, reforms have created new challenges to the public sector, which has to understand how markets operate, seek funding mechanisms and develop criteria for allocating funds.
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  Community-based approaches and service delivery: issues and options in difficult environments and partnerships

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This document, prepared for the Department for International Development (DFID), examines the relationship between community-based approaches and service delivery, drawing together lessons from international experience with relevance to Sudan, and focussing particularly on health, water and sanitation.
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  Service delivery in countries emerging from conflict

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This report, published by the Department for International Development (DFID), examines service delivery in countries emerging from conflict, asking what types of service delivery systems are appropriate, sustainable, and can help to prevent future conflict. It is based on evidence from case studies in Mozambique, Uganda, Cambodia and East Timor.
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  Local governance, finances and service delivery in Tanzania: a summary of findings from six councils

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2005

  This study measure the success of the Civil Service Reform Programme (CSRP) which was launched in Tanzania in 1997. in order to determine progress it focuses on the areas of governance, finances and financial management and service delivery.
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  Service delivery in difficult environments: the case of Nepal

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This report, produced by the DFID Nepal Office, Asia Policy Regional Policy Unit and DFID Policy Division, describes different approaches development agencies have used to support service delivery in Nepal and highlights key areas for future support. It explains how agency involvement in the delivery of basic services has evolved in response to the conflict in Nepal.
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  Evaluation of ECHO’s 1999 to 2002 funded actions in Sudan

  European Commission Humanitarian Office, 2003

  This report, published by the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO), evaluates the expected results, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of ECHO-financed projects in Sudan. The programmes included health and nutrition, water and sanitation, food security, and emergency preparedness and response.
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  The business of higher education: a study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2005

  This study explores public-private partnerships that existed between 2002 and early 2003 in higher education provision in South Africa.

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