This paper first examines the political economy of service delivery in China, and finds that the new policy of social service outsourcing (SSO) to non-profit organizations (NPOs) was motivated by the failure of the geographical family-based model of service provision adopted after the work-unit...

In 2011, 31 new water and sewerage projects reached financial or contractual closure in six lower-and upper-middle income countries: Algeria (1), Brazil (2), China (26), Jordan (1), Mexico (1) and Peru (1). Total investment commitments in water projects reached US$2.6.2 billion, of which over...