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Public Services and Welfare Reform

Current research programme relating to public services and welfare reform in developing countries

(a) Political economy of public service delivery

(b) Public health insurance

Experimental evidence on barriers to take up of health insurance. With Grant Miller (Stanford, School of Medicine), Manoj Mohanan (Duke, School of Public Health), Marcos vera Hernandez (UCL, Economics and IFS London)

(c) Social banking

• Social Banking, Poverty and Growth. With Jon Temple and Liz Washbrook (Bristol).
• Income and Health: Evidence from a Social Banking Experiment. With Liz Washbrook (Bristol).

(d) Food subsidies

• • Welfare Implications Of Fiscal Reform: The Case Of Food Subsidies In India, in Tony Addison and Alan Roe (eds.), Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth, Studies in Development Economics and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2004.