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In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...
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affected by the novel coronavirus, Kenya's economy had decelerated. The World Bank estimates that GDP growth in 2019 was about …
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and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya's fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the … controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK … while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal …
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in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …
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International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...
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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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Using nationally representative survey data from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the relationship between women …'s empowerment in agriculture and indicators of individual dietary quality. Our findings suggest that women's empowerment is … associated with better dietary quality for individuals within the household, with varying effects across the life course. Women …
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limited, especially among smaller producers. Fewer women than men own poultry, but most women report that they control the … equitable gains in terms of gender. Access to credit appears to increase women's poultry ownership, but remains limited, as does … women's access to poultry output markets …
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As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take … over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women. We study how … associated with the share of household and hired labor performed by women, and women's empowerment. When a household experiences …
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