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Overcoming malnutrition: is there an ecoregional dimension?
Sharma, Manohar; Garcia, Marito; Qureshi, Aamir; Brown, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996
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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Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: Are the poor and uninsured households more vulnerable?
Atake, Esso-Hanam - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 26, pp. 1-14
health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010782
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Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert - 2015
I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …
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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015
I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486585
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A destiny shaped by water : a diagnostic of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and poverty in Niger
Weltbank - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564833
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Desafíos hídricos en Chile y recomendaciones para el cumplimiento del ODS 6 en América Latina y el Caribe
Saravia Matus, Silvia; Gil, Marina; Blanco, Elisa; … - 2020
El presente documento examina los desafíos hídricos que la región de América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta para el cumplimiento del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 6 de garantizar la disponibilidad de agua y su gestión sostenible y saneamiento para todos. Utiliza como contexto de...
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Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021
coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583568
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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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Measuring sanitation poverty : a multidimensional measure to assess delivery of sanitation and hygiene services at the household level
Giné-Garriga, Ricard; Pérez-Foguet, Agustí - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098493
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Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: are the poor and uninsured households more vulnerable?
Atake, Esso-Hanam - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 26, pp. 1-14
health insurance could mitigate vulnerability to poverty. Other challenges-birth control policy, adequate sanitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942900