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Title: Marketizing Education and Health in Developing Countries: Miracle or Mirage?
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997. orig.boards. 24x16cm, x,378 pp. Textual tables. Slight page-edge bump, minor page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes; C. Colclough "Education, Health & the Market;An Introduction"; A. Creese & J. Kutzin "Lessons from Cost Recovery in Health"; J.B.G. Tilak "Lessons from Cost Recovery in Education"; S. Bennett "Private Health Care & Public Policy Objectives"; S. Bashir "The Cost Effectiveness of Public & Private Schools: Knowledge Gaps, New Research Methodologies, & an Application in India"; E.M. King "Who Really Pays for Education? The Roles of Government & Families in Indonesia"; M. Bray "Community Financing of Education: Rationales, Mechanisms & Policy Implications in Less Developed Countries"; C. Normand "Health Insurance: A Solution to the Financing Gap?"; G. Bloom "Financing Rural Health Services:Lessons from China"; A. Mills "Improving the Efficiency of Public Sector Health Services in Developing Countries: Bureaucratic versus Market Approaches"; C. Colclough "Improving the Cost Effectiveness of Education Systems: An Assessment, & an Illustration from South Africa"; R.S.L. Burgess "Fiscal Reform & the Extension of Basic Health & Education Coverage"; N. Birdsall & R. Hecht "Swimming Against the Tide: Strategies for Improving Equity in Health".

Keywords: Development Economics, Developing Nations, Public Finance, Education System, Health Care Systems, Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Private Financing, Social Welfare

Price: US$ 79.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS007862I