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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data

Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017

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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Access to water and COVID-19: A regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru

Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022

This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...

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Does aid improve public service delivery?

Wolf, Susanna - 2007

and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom … negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to …

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Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid

Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012

sanitation). We also find that effects are stronger during the fetal period (2nd trimester of gestation), for children born …

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Dynamics between antibiotic drug use and resistance : an economic approach

Frank, Uwe; Kaier, Klaus - 2009

In Europe, the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance (AMR) has become a serious public health threat. Rational antibiotic policy, combined with enforcement of infection control practices are key strategies to combat AMR in the hospital setting. Using timeseries analysis, we calculated...