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The present paper explores the relationship between political competition and effective public goods delivery systems in a decentralized context to study whether the awareness generated through such a competitive environment and the existence of more political options are a part of the causal...
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Recent literature on Latin American countries shows that private expenses as a share of the total expenditures in health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development. This paper considers a discrete choice model of product differentiation, where consumer choice is based...
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This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...
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This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …
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This paper (ENV-126) was originally presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternatives to Traditional Contingent Valuation Methods in Environmental Valuation, held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, on October 15-16, 1998. This paper reviews the past ten years of the...
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In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our …
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demands (for water, sanitation or health services) and neglect the valuation of nonmarket goods (like ecosystems, biodiversity … developing countries and show, through a survey implemented in Moshi (Tanzania) about demand for sanitation, some methodological …
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use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity for … children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we find that access to improved sanitation … improved sanitation. We neither find statistically signicant treatment effects for children in low or middle socioeconomic …
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En Colombia las Empresas Municipales de Cali - EMCALI - y las Empresas Públicas de Medellín - EPM - a finales de los 80 tuvieron un desempeño financiero, operacional y administrativo comparable con las mejores empresas del sector privado colombiano y al de las más destacadas en el sector de...
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70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin …, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain … play the most decisive role for sanitation demand and ownership. At current income levels, sanitation coverage will only …
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