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Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: Health care, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being driven to adopt an 'indirect' approach - managing, contracting and regulating public agencies or private partners, rather than providing services directly. It questions how governments are responding and whether this approach is appropriate to the capacities of developing countries.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figure and Boxes
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Preface
- About the Authors
- 1 Changing Views of the Role of the Government
- 2 Changing Approaches to Public Sector Management
- 3 The Politics of Service Reform
- 4 Decentralizing Organizational Arrangements for Service Delivery
- 5 The Experience of Charging for Public Services
- 6 Working with Private Partners
- 7 The Experience of Contracting
- 8 Regulating and Enabling the Private Sector
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index