Making Services Work for Poor People

By Shanta Devarajan, R. Reinikka. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Abhijit Banerjee
2. Rema Hanna
3. Benjamin A. Olken
4. Esther Duflo
5. Paul Niehaus
6. K. Muralidharan
7. Sandip Sukhtankar
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In Safety Research

1. Benjamin A. Olken
2. Frederico Finan
3. Abhijit Banerjee
4. Rema Hanna
5. Harry Anthony Patrinos *
6. M. Moore
7. Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir
8. J. Faguet

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• The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia (2017, background): “The main revenue sources included the Subsidy for Autonomous Regions (Subsidi Daerah Otonom/SDO), which was earmarked for salaries and recurrent expenditures, and the Presidential Instruction Fund (Dana Inpres), which was earmarked for development projects (World Bank 2003b).”
• Proliferation and fragmentation: Transactions costs and the value of aid (2006, methodology): “Contemporary development aid has its historical roots in Marshall Plan assistance from the United States to Western Europe after World War II.”
• Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households (2008, background): “SUPPLY IN JAKARTA (a) Access to water supply in Jakarta Several studies have characterized Jakarta’s water and sanitation sector as one of the weakest in Asia (Brennan & Richardson, 1989; Leitmann, 1995; McGranahan, Jacobi, Songsore, Surjadi, & Kjellen, 2001; McIntosh, 2003; World Bank, 2004b).”
• Decentralization and access to social services in Colombia (2009, background): “…both the developing and developed worlds, policy reformers are experimenting with a wide array of federalist tools and incentives, ranging from administrative deconcentration to the full-scale devolution of power and resources to subnational levels of government (Manor 1999, World Bank 2004).”
• The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth (Part II) (2007, positive): “In the subsequent sections, we will also use these data to analyze 42 See, for example, Krueger (1974); World Bank (1993); Parente and Prescott (1994, 1999).”
• Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA (2011, neutral): “4 Despite mixed evidence, there remains considerable policy support for further local autonomy in decision-making (e.g., Ouchi (2003); World Bank (2004); Governor’s Committee on Educational Excellence (2007)).”
• Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia (2019, positive): “…countries, allow local communities to choose and implement                                                              1 For example, the World Development Report on Making Services Work for Poor People (World Bank, 2004), particularly chapter 3 and 4, advocates the need to prevent local elite…”