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| Political interests are hurting the poor |
Teachers in Tanzania are absent 23% of the time; doctors in Senegal spend an average of 39 minutes a day seeing patients; in Chad, 99% percent of non-wage public spending in health disappears before reaching the clinics. Why?
Because failures in service delivery represent a political equilibrium where politicians and service providers (teachers, doctors, bureaucrats) benefit from the status quo and resist attempts at improving services. For instance, teachers are often the campaign managers for local politicians.
See how this political equilibrium can be broken to benefit the poor.
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