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Better hygiene and access to drinking water and sanitation will accelerate progress toward two millennium development … people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation". Meeting the latter goal will require … day) and access to safe sanitation for 2.2 billion additional people (397,000 per day). Water supply, sanitation, and …
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In Tanzania, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has been supporting the Government of Tanzania in 10 districts to … increase access to improved sanitation. This initiative to improve rural sanitation at large scale combines Community-Led Total … Sanitation (CLTS), behavior change communication, and sanitation marketing approaches, and supports both local and national …
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The handwashing handbook advocates handwashing-with-soap programs to fight the spread of disease. It covers the following components: laying the foundation for a National Handwashing Program; understanding the consumer; and implementing the program. The handbook explains how to research consumer...
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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 estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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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 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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