Serve the essentials : what governments and donors must do to improve South Asia’s essential services / foreword by Jean Drèze.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: [New Delhi, India] : Oxfam International, ©2006.Description: [10] unnumbered pages, v, 55 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet HN670.6. Z9.
Contents:
Contents: Executive summary—1. Essentials of essential services in South Asia—2. What works? The case for universal public provision—3. What’s holding others back?—4. How to make a big dent—Endnotes—List of tables—List of figures—List of boxes—Acronyms and abbreviations.
Summary: Summary: “The good, The bad and the ugly: South Asia is a melting pot of contrasts. Three hundred and forty children die every single day in Bangladesh due to untreated diarrhoea, but an average person in Sri Lanka can expect to live for 74 years. Thirty million children across South Asia who stay at home, work on farms, or beg at traffic lights are out of school, while thousands of government-subsidised highly educated doctors and engineers work in foreign countries. Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have a horrific record…”—(page i).
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“Actions express priorities” M.K. Gandhi, 1869-1948”—cover page.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Executive summary—1. Essentials of essential services in South Asia—2. What works? The case for universal public provision—3. What’s holding others back?—4. How to make a big dent—Endnotes—List of tables—List of figures—List of boxes—Acronyms and abbreviations.

Summary: “The good, The bad and the ugly: South Asia is a melting pot of contrasts. Three hundred and forty children die every single day in Bangladesh due to untreated diarrhoea, but an average person in Sri Lanka can expect to live for 74 years. Thirty million children across South Asia who stay at home, work on farms, or beg at traffic lights are out of school, while thousands of government-subsidised highly educated doctors and engineers work in foreign countries. Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have a horrific record…”—(page i).

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