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The Nitrogen Legacy : The Long-Term Effects of Water Pollution on Human Capital

Zaveri, Esha - 2019

The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, water soil and human health. This paper presents new evidence that nitrogen pollution in water is an important determinant … countries are combined to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest stages of …

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The nitrogen legacy : the long-term effects of water pollution on human capital

Zaveri, Esha D.; Russ, Jason; Desbureaux, Sébastien; … - 2020

The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …

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Better Use of Capital to Deliver Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Services : Practical Examples and Suggested Next Steps

Kingdom, Bill - 2018

The costs of meeting the SDG WASH targets will be several times higher than investment levels during the MDG era (2000-15). The immense scale of the financing gap calls for innovative solutions. In addition to mobilizing more funding another approach is to deliver the needed infrastructure more...

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City-Wide Inclusive Water Supply : Refocusing on Off-Grid Solutions for Addressing Sustainable Development Goal 6.1

Misra, Smita - 2019

The objective of this report is to better understand the challenges of meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 from the perspective of off-grid services currently being used by a large and increasing proportion of the urban population. For this assessment, two key distinct areas with high...

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Citywide Inclusive Water Supply : Adopting Off-Grid Solutions to Achieve the SDGs

Misra, Smita - 2019

Today about 676 million urban residents, many of them poor, do not have access to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) definition of "safely managed" water supplies. They receive an off-grid water supply service that is not safely managed, accessible, or affordable, and thus not compliant with...

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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance

Ahmed, Habib - 2015

The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...

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Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation

Goksu, Amanda - 2017

Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded and why business as usual is insufficient for meeting WSS-related goals, covering the size of...

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Water, Well-Being, and the Prosperity of Future Generations

Chase, Claire - 2017

Water-related diseases are a major health burden for populations, especially the poor. Meeting global aspirations for poverty reduction will require addressing the global water and sanitation challenge. This discussion paper provides an overview of the poverty-related impacts of inadequate water...

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Nature's Frontiers : Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital

Damania, Richard - 2023

The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living standards, but it has also caused rapid changes in earth systems. Nearly all types of natural capital-the world's stock of resources and services provided by nature-are in decline....

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