Improving basic services for the bottom forty percent : lessons from Ethiopia / Qaiser M. Khan [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Qaiser M., author.

Series:

World Bank Studies

World Bank Study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macroeconomics--Mathematical models.

Macroeconomics.

Ethiopia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank Group, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethiopia's model for delivering basic services appears to be succeeding and to confirm that services improve when service providers are more accountable to citizens. As discussed in the World Development Report 2004, accountability for delivering basic services can take an indirect, long route, in which citizens influence service providers through government, or a more direct, short route between service providers and citizens. When the long, indirect route of accountability is ineffective, service delivery can suffer, especially among poor or marginalized citizens who find it challenging to e

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Introduction and Background; Context and Structure of This Book; The Promoting Basic Services Program; Figures; Figure I.1 The Triangle of Accountability in Service Delivery; Boxes; Box I.1 The Indirect Route of Accountability Through Policy Makers to Service Providers; Tables; Table I.1 Federal Block Grants and PBS Program Disbursements; Table I.2 Total Woreda Recurrent Expenditures by Region; Notes; Chapter 1 Conceptual Framework and Methodology

Figure 1.1 Conceptual Model of the Results Chain of PBS Spending Box 1.1 Some Caveats on Interpreting the Results of This Study; Figure 1.2 Woreda-Level Expenditure in the Five PBS Sectors, 2011; Notes; Chapter 2 Citizen Direct Voice and Accountability; Box 2.1 The Direct Route of Accountability-Citizen Direct Voice and Accountability Models in Ethiopia; Decentralization and the Quality and Appropriateness of Local Services; Financial Transparency and Accountability; Social Accountability; Grievance Redress Mechanisms; Notes

Chapter 3 Effectiveness of Woreda Block Grant Spending on Education, Health, and Agriculture A Positive Association between Woreda Block Spending and Results in Education; A Positive Association between Woreda Block Grant Spending and Results in Health; Box 3.1 Ethiopia's Health Extension Program and Health Extension Workers; Table 3.1 Association of Log of Per Capita Education Expenditure with Log of Education Outcomes; Table 3.2 Association of Log of Per Capita Health Expenditure with Health Outcomes; A Positive Association between Woreda Block Grant Spending and Results in Agriculture

Figure 3.1 Growth in Extension Services and Woredas' Expenditure on Agriculture, 2008-11 Table 3.3 Effect on Farmers' Use of Extension Services of ETB 1 Per Capita Spending on Agricultural Extension Workers; Figure 3.2 Production by Crop, 2011; Notes; Table 3.4 Association of Log of Per Capita Spending on Agricultural Extension Workers with Log of Yield; Chapter 4 How Equitable Is Decentralized Spending at the Woreda Level?; Woreda Block Grant Spending on Health Improves Outcomes, Especially for the Rural Poor

Figure 4.1 Percent Improvement in Selected Health Indicators Among Rural People Between 2005 and 2011, by Wealth Quintile Table 4.1 Predicted Probabilities for "Successful" Health Outcomes by Place of Residence and Wealth Quintile if an HEW Visited the Household in the Past Year; Incidence Analysis of Woreda Block Grant Spending on Health and Education; Table 4.2 Incidence of Woreda-Level Spending by Wealth Quintile; Catalytic Effect of Spending on Extension Services by Plot Size; Gender Equity Analysis for Woreda Block Grant Spending

Table 4.3 Effect of ETB 1 Spending on Agricultural Extension Workers on Probability of Using Improved Farming Techniques, by Plot-Size Quintile, 2011

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9781464803338

1464803331

OCLC:

891382494

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-1-4648-0331-4