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Decentralization, Fiscal Effort and Social Progress in Colombia at the Municipal Level, 1994-2009: Why Does National Politics Matter?

Torres, Fabio Sánchez; Pachón, Mónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

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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Income Distribution and the Public-Private Mix in Health Care Provision: The Latin American Case

Maceira, Daniel - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

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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Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy

Estache, Antonio; Garsous, Grégoire; Motta, Ronaldo … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

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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A Review of the Use of Contingent Valuation Methods in Project Analysis at the Inter-American Development Bank

Ardila, Sergio; Quiroga, Ricardo; Vaughan, William J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

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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Efficiency in Saving Infant Lives: the Influence of Water and Sanitation Coverage

Ferro, Gustavo; Romero, Carlos A.; Castiglione, Ignacio - HAL - 2011

In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our …

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Measuring demand for sanitation in developing countries: A new theoretical and methodological framework for contingent valuation surveys

Milanesi, Julien - HAL - 2010

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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Evolución de las empresas de agua y saneamiento de Medellín y Cali en Colombia: ¿Vidas paralelas?

Álvarez, Luis Guillermo Vélez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

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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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan

Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2007

Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental … water and sanitation is a courteous expression for a form of deprivation that threatens life, destroys opportunity and … undermines human dignity. Thus, investing in the provision of safe water supply and adequate sanitation is not only a development …

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Water and Sanitation in Belize

Kuratomi, Traci; Martin, Dougal; Ducci, Jorge; Rihm, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

access to improved sanitation facilities. Belize has also made progress in terms of the disposal of solid waste in the … situation of the water and sanitation and solid waste sectors in Belize, and makes recommendations on immediate actions to …

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Estudo de caso do sistema integrado de saneamento rural (SISAR) no Brasil Title: Estudio de caso del sistema integrado de saneamiento rural (SISAR) en el Brasil

Rocha, Wilson dos Santos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

O estudo de caso avaliou três experiências do modelo de prestação de serviços denominado SISAR (Sistema Integrado de Saneamento Rural), sendo dois no Ceará e um Piauí. Este modelo constitui-se em uma federação de associações comunitárias que se responsabiliza por garantir a...

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