Development through Empowerment: Delivering Effective Public Services - A Literature Review
Publication | December 2013
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Nine years after the release of the World Development Outlook 2004, the current trends reveal a mixed pattern: some Asian countries have considerably improved their quality of public service delivery; others have fallen back or stagnated.
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This paper reviews the channels through which empowerment may improve the efficiency and quality of public service delivery, particularly in developing Asia. Departing from a macro perspective, the author focuses and revisits microeconomic evidence for three broad measures aimed at empowering the poor: empowerment through voice, empowerment through exit, and empowerment through information.
Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Big Picture - Changes since 2004
- Challenges in Public Goods Provision
- Development through Empowerment - Case Studies
- Conclusion
- References
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