Germano Mwabu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi.Cecilia Ugaz is Research Fellow at UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, Finland.Before his death, Gordon White was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

• Introduction: Context and Scope ; I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ; 1. The Process of Economic Change ; 2. Alternative Approaches to Welfare Policy Analysis: New Institutional Economics, Politics, and Political Economy ; 3. Provision of Social Services: Civil Economy, Cultural Evolution, and Participatory Development ; II. PATTERNS OF SOCIAL PROVISION ; 4. The Role of Civic Organizations in the Provision of Social Services: Towards Synergy ; 5. Strategies of Social Provision: Key Design Issues ; 6. Contexts of Caretaking: Privatism, Diversity, and Households in Social Provision ; 7. The Role of State in the Provision of Social Services: Decentralization and Regulation ; III. FINANCIAL ISSUES ; 8. User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education ; 9. User Charges for Health Care: A Review of the Underlying Theory ; IV. CASE STUDIES ; 10. Provision of Social Services in Chile: A Search for a New Model ; 11. Cost Recovery and Equity in the Health Sector: The Experience of Zimbabwe ; 12. Village-based Provision of Key Social Services: The Case of Tanzania ; 13. Market-based Reforms and Changes in China's Health Care System ; 14. Social Provision in Finland: A Historical Perspective

... an extraordinarily rich and scholarly contribution with a strong policy flavour.

Germano Mwabu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi.Cecilia Ugaz is Research Fellow at UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, Finland.Before his death, Gordon White was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

• Introduction: Context and Scope ; I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ; 1. The Process of Economic Change ; 2. Alternative Approaches to Welfare Policy Analysis: New Institutional Economics, Politics, and Political Economy ; 3. Provision of Social Services: Civil Economy, Cultural Evolution, and Participatory Development ; II. PATTERNS OF SOCIAL PROVISION ; 4. The Role of Civic Organizations in the Provision of Social Services: Towards Synergy ; 5. Strategies of Social Provision: Key Design Issues ; 6. Contexts of Caretaking: Privatism, Diversity, and Households in Social Provision ; 7. The Role of State in the Provision of Social Services: Decentralization and Regulation ; III. FINANCIAL ISSUES ; 8. User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education ; 9. User Charges for Health Care: A Review of the Underlying Theory ; IV. CASE STUDIES ; 10. Provision of Social Services in Chile: A Search for a New Model ; 11. Cost Recovery and Equity in the Health Sector: The Experience of Zimbabwe ; 12. Village-based Provision of Key Social Services: The Case of Tanzania ; 13. Market-based Reforms and Changes in China's Health Care System ; 14. Social Provision in Finland: A Historical Perspective

... an extraordinarily rich and scholarly contribution with a strong policy flavour.

Germano Mwabu is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi.Cecilia Ugaz is Research Fellow at UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, Finland.Before his death, Gordon White was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

• Introduction: Context and Scope ; I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ; 1. The Process of Economic Change ; 2. Alternative Approaches to Welfare Policy Analysis: New Institutional Economics, Politics, and Political Economy ; 3. Provision of Social Services: Civil Economy, Cultural Evolution, and Participatory Development ; II. PATTERNS OF SOCIAL PROVISION ; 4. The Role of Civic Organizations in the Provision of Social Services: Towards Synergy ; 5. Strategies of Social Provision: Key Design Issues ; 6. Contexts of Caretaking: Privatism, Diversity, and Households in Social Provision ; 7. The Role of State in the Provision of Social Services: Decentralization and Regulation ; III. FINANCIAL ISSUES ; 8. User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education ; 9. User Charges for Health Care: A Review of the Underlying Theory ; IV. CASE STUDIES ; 10. Provision of Social Services in Chile: A Search for a New Model ; 11. Cost Recovery and Equity in the Health Sector: The Experience of Zimbabwe ; 12. Village-based Provision of Key Social Services: The Case of Tanzania ; 13. Market-based Reforms and Changes in China's Health Care System ; 14. Social Provision in Finland: A Historical Perspective

... an extraordinarily rich and scholarly contribution with a strong policy flavour.