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Bahuguna, Aroha; Andrés, Luis; Joseph, George; Huq, Mainul - 2019

Using data from the International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities, this paper on the water sector in pourashavas (municipalities) in Bangladesh provides an analysis of the trends in the water sector development over 2010-16. The main purpose of the paper is to examine the...

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Three feet under : urban jobs, connectivity, and infrastructure : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper

Rentschler, Jun; Braese, Johannes; Jones, Nick; Avner, Paolo - 2019

This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African … affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to significant flood risk that … of natural hazards on urban infrastructure networks …

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Underutilized potential : the business costs of unreliable infrastructure in developing countries : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper

Rentschler, Jun; Kornejew, Martin; Hallegatte, Stéphane; … - 2019

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …

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