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Universal access to drinking water: the role of aid
Bain, Robert; Luyendijk, Rolf; Bartram, Jamie - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Financing and the role of aid within the water sector are poorly understood. We estimate the levels of spending achieved in developing countries during the Millennium Development Goals period to be US$80 billion per year. Aid represented a substantial pro
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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation
Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Water and sanitation sectors have been the .natural. subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in asse
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Health and the Urban Transition Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment
Spencer, James H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back to one of its original roles. Current research, however, has focused on industrialized cities, overlooking some of the important urbanization processes in poor countries. This...
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Water 'Scarcity' in Chennai, India: Institutions, Entitlements and Aspects of Inequality in Access
Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
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Consumer Preferences for Water Supply? An Application of Choice Models to Urban India
Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033078
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Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile …. This paper employs recently collected data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the evolution of consumption …
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Is Internal Migration Bad for Receiving Urban Centres? Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2000
Ferré, Céline - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
grew tremendously, while immigration participated in the rapid urbanization process and the redistribution of poverty …
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On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America
Barrientos, Armando - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects
Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
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Poverty and Land Distribution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Keswell, Malcolm - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...
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