Investment Climate Surveys: A Brief [get by e-mail] July 1, 2002 This paper explains concept of investment climate surveys, the work done to date and how the data they generate would expected to be...
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From 1998 to the present, the Ministry of Health of the Royal Government of Cambodia has conducted an operations research on the feasibility, impact, and cost-effectiveness of government contracting with non-government organizations (NGOs) to deliver health services as an alternative to conventional government provision. The Cambodia case study suggests that government contracting of the provision of health services to nongovernmental entities is not only feasible but can potentially increase the coverage of health services in a short time.
This paper describes the difficulties encountered with the Panama LSMS survey of 1997 and suggests changes that would make the survey much more useful for the formulation of water sector policy and the design of policies to promote access of the poor to infra-structure services in general.
Grameen Telecom has provided telephone access to nearly 3 million poor villages beyond the reach of the main phone network. This paper looks at factors behind the success of the scheme in reaching poor households.
The study analyzes how effectively rural financial institutions and the Government have performed their role as agents of Indonesia's economic growth (availability of resources, volume and quality of investments, resource allocation and appropriation).
This paper documents and reviews the Chilean experience in rural telecommunications. It focuses on the principles, practical organization, results, improvements on the basic design, outstanding issues, and prospects for extension of the approach to more advanced forms of communication and access to information.
The Public School Concession Model was designed in response to the objectives of the Development Plan of the Capital District of Bogotá, which aims to bring quality education to low socioeconomic groups in the city. In response to mounting evidence that institutional organization affects the educational outcomes of students, the Public School Concession Model targets school management as a means of delivering quality educational services to marginal areas of Bogotá by drawing on the experiences of successful private schools. In order to achieve this goal, the program focuses on three key concepts: knowledge pooling, economies of scale, and government commitment.
This web site gathers the papers presented at the recent international conference which focused on current best practice in serving the poor through private infrastructure and ways to move ahead in making reforms to support private involvement more responsive to their needs.
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