Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector Cooperation Berlin Workshop Series 2004 (Berlin Workshop Series)

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by  Gudrun Kochendorfer-Lucius

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Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
and Boris Pleskovic
ISBN 0-8213-5616-X
Themes for the
6TH ANNUAL BERLIN WORKSHOP SERIES
Berlin, Germany
“INVESTMENT CLIMATE, GROWTH, AND POVERTY”
September 3–5, 2003
Investment, Productivity, and Development
Investor Perspectives on the Investment Climate
Securing Property and Contractual Rights
Finance Markets
Regulation, Governance, and Corruption
What Role for More Selective Interventions?
Reforming the Investment Climate
Service Provision for the Poor

Berlin Workshop Series 2004
Service Provision for the Poor
Public and Private Sector
Cooperation
Edited by
Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
and Boris Pleskovic
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION 1
Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius and Boris Pleskovic
OPENING ADDRESS 3
Making Services Work for Poor People: A Scholar’s Perspective
Wolf-Dieter Eberwein
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Why Is a World Development Reporton Making Services Work 7
for Poor People Needed?
Nicholas H. Stern
Poverty in Russia 9
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 17
Daniele Giusti
Basic Services—A Basic Right 31
Jeremy Hobbs
The Madrasa Early Childhood Programme in East Africa 35
Kathy Bartlett
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The Role of the Private Sector
Evidence from a Study of Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia 51
Michael Kremer
The Rural Private Practitioner 59
Hema Viswanathan
The Role of Local Governments
Delivering Infrastructure: A Strategic Framework 69
Junaid K. Ahmad
Employment of Farmers and Poverty Alleviation in China 81
Yuzhao Wang
Incentives and Innovations
Getting Health Services to the Poor: Incentives, Efficiency, 87
and Health System Performance
Orvill Adams and William Savedoff
Bolivia’s Plan for Achieving Education for All Goals 101
John Newman
Rushing to Help the Poor through Participation May Be Self-Defeating 111
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Modes of Financing
Tanzania’s Experience with Education 123
Mwatumu J. Malale
How Aid Modalities Influence the Effectiveness of Public Expenditures in 129
Developing Countries: A Bilateral Donor Perspective
Olav H. Seim
Financing Development 133
Thomas Wollenzien
CONCLUSION 137
Making Services Work for Poor People
Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka
APPENDIXES
1. Program 153
2. Participants 157
Acknowledgments
The planning and organization for the 2002 workshop involved a joint effort. We
extend our special thanks for the support and advice of Nicholas H. Stern, senior vice
president for development economics and chief economist of the World Bank at the
time of the conference, and Shantayanan Devarajan and Ritva Reinikka, co-directors
of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2004.We would also like to thank
other staff members, in particular the conference coordinators, Irene Federwisch,
Mantejwinder Jandu, Klaus Krüger, and Joachim Müller, whose excellent organiza-
tional skills kept the workshop on track. Finally, we would like to thank the editorial
staff, especially Alice Faintich, Kim Kelley, and Grit Schmalisch, for their work on
this volume.
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