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Assessing the impact of policy research and capacity building by IFPRI in Malawi:

Ryan, James G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

This study examines the contributions of IFPRI over the last 10 years to policy development, training, and capacity-strengthening activities with Malawi, focused particularly on addressing the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition that has prevailed for the last 60 years.The paper is divided...

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External impact assessment of IFPRI's 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment Initiative:

Paarlberg, Robert L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

The 2020 Vision initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was launched late in 1993, at a time of growing global complacency regarding international food security questions. The first phase of the 2020 Vision initiative (1993–96) featured the development of an...

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Benefits trickling away : the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012

This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …

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Battle and beating, water and waste : micro-level impact evaluation in developing and emerging economies

Rieckmann, Johannes - 2014

Die Dissertation mit dem Titel “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” beinhaltet die Ergebnisse ökonometrischer Wirkungsevaluierungen, die innerhalb zwei verschiedener Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs-...

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Results of the process and impact evaluation for selected government water supply and sanitation programs

Porciuncula, Alma D.; Erfe, Doreen C.; Navarro, Adoracion M. - 2016

Past and present administrations have implemented water supply and sanitation (WSS) programs to increase the number of …

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Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance : Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2013

In this article, we show that a small innovation in inspection technology can make substantial differences in inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the portable digital assistant (PDA), which reminds inspectors...

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Overview and Meta-Analysis of Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Impact Evaluations

Andres, Luis Alberto - 2018

This paper presents an overview and meta-analysis of the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions around … water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health and non-health outcomes, ranging from behavior change -- such as the … effects. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions were found to increase the likelihood of behavior changes and the …

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Essays on the effects of growth, public expenditures and infrastructure investments in developing countries

Almánzar, Miguel - 2017

The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation pursues the objective by explicitly highlighting the...

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Comprehensive social protection programming : what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes?

Roelen, Keetie; Rodriguez, Karol - 2022

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Scaling up sanitation : evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2017

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process … that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …

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