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What is the rationale for public provision of such services as education and primary health care? What alternatives to public provision might be considered?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Relations between rich and poor countries is most important in
 
  a. Marx's view of capitalist development
   b.dualism
   c. dependency theory
   d. Rostow's stages of development
   e. none of the above



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Answer to Question 1

The rationale would normally be provided in terms of externalities. Alternatives would be private provision (with and without regulation), and government contracting to private providers.

Answer to Question 2

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