Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of ...

Informal payments—payments made from patients to health personnel in excess of official fees—are widespread in low-income countries. It is ...

Norway has been requested by IMF to provide balance of payments (BOP) support to Bangladesh, which is facing a critical reduction in its foreign exchange ...

The aim of this report is to describe how the decisions to use results-based payments in Norwegian development cooperation were made and ...

The aim of this report is to summarize the experiences from results-based initiatives in Norwegian development cooperation and enhance the knowledge base ...

In this chapter Fjeldstad reflects on the non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa. The main question he explores is how trust ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. Informal payments are often claimed to reduce access to ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding ...

Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance ...

A combination of low wages and perverse incentives motivate civil servants to supplement their income with per diem payments connected to participation ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is inadequate collection of revenues, mainly due to widespread non-payment. However, huge variations in compliance exist both within (poor) communities and between communities that have quite similar socio-economic characteristics.

Health workers’ motivation is a key determinant of the quality of health services, and poor motivation has been found to be an obstacle to service ...

The report was commissioned by Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) with funds from NORAD. The evaluation looks into NPA's support to health services in Gisenyi ...

Norway has been requested by IMF to provide balance of payment (BOP) support to Bangladesh, which is facing a critical reduction in its foreign exchange ...

Low health worker performance is a key obstacle to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. While a lack of knowledge, equipment and medicine have been seen as the major challenges, a recent study pinpoints poorly motivated health workers as an important contributing factor to low quality health care in low-income settings.

Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability mechanisms. ...

Background: Despite limited evidence of its effectiveness,performance-based payments (P4P) are seen by leading policymakers as a potential solution to ...

The water “business” involves large numbers of consumers using water in different ways including households, industries, and farms. Management ...