The purpose of the baseline assessment is to provide baseline information on women access to public services, especially health, water, and population administration services. One of the objectives of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility,...

One objective of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility, and responsiveness of public service delivery. But up to now, various service pictures show how women have more limited access to good public services. Maternal, infant, and children...

"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization often struggle with decisions about the essential components...

The Baseline Indicators (BLIs) assessment has been conducted by the Development Partners and the Government of Pakistan as a precursor to carrying forward the Government's efforts to upgrade the Country Procurement Systems (CPS) to international standards and to help it assess the level and type...

Municipalities play a large role in the Bulgarian public sector. They provide primary and secondary education. They own and operate about one-third of the hospitals in the country. Until 2003, they administered all the major social assistance programs (except pensions and unemployment...

"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...