The Private Provision of Public Services in Developing Countries (EDI Series in Economic Development) - Softcover

Roth, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195207858 ISBN 13: 9780195207859

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1989

Synopsis

This work examines several different aspects of the major "public" services supplied by the private sector in developing countries: education, electricity, health, telecommunications, urban transportation, and water and sewerage. The author examines the problems, as well as the potential, of private sector involvement, and discusses interrelationships between the sectors, obstacles to private sector involvement, and the problem of price equality. The book also includes commentary on the role of the government in relation to each type of service provision.

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Synopsis

This study explores the debate about the appropriate boundary between the roles of the public and private sectors and between government responsibility and private initiative. The author examines ways to engage the resources of the private sector in meeting the needs of developing countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195207858
• ISBN 13: 9780195207859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293