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Agroecological conditions largely determine the production potential of an agrarian area and its ability to support a number of people. It seems to make sense, therefore, to base economic and policy research on ecoregional zones, rather than on geographical or political boundaries alone. This...
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CONTENTS: Brief 1. Overview / Agnes R. Quisumbing and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick Brief 2. Land Rights / Eve Crowley Brief 3. Water Rights / Barbara Van Koppen Brief 4. Rights to Livestock / Beth A. Miller Brief 5. Technology / Thelma R. Paris, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6....
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health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …
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The Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic (PD) in Niger is part of a global initiative to … to safely managed water supply and sanitation …
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We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
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focused on sanitation and related issues, which are the focus of this review. Results were mixed on the efficiency of … sanitation delivery since political factors and administrative characteristics vary across locations. Accountability and … the norms, traditions, and beliefs towards favorably supporting household sanitation decisions. Additionally, governments …
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coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
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In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
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