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family welfare, and water supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses two principal indicators namely the per …
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This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the paper tries to engage with three questions: a) what are the national and state-level responses...
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There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand India†which has the tenth highest GDP in the world. Even while the country is...
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The urgent task ahead is the reduction of the visible inequalities in education, health and housing, thus contributing to a broad based evolution of human capabilities. As for the macroeconomic environment to assist in the cashing in of the capabilities, the higher level of equality in...
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To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH …
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This paper discusses Bolivia’s Fourth Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria (PC). Economic activity in Bolivia is picking up, led by exports. Real GDP growth is projected to reach 3.8 percent in 2004. Inflation has...
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Bangladesh faces multiple challenges in the sanitation, hygiene and water sector. This study aims to review the damage … to sanitation facilities during floods. It also explored the possibilities of overcoming the negative impacts of floods … on sanitation. The study was conducted among 880 households from selected flood affected areas of BRAC WASH programme …
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The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. About 42,000 people …
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