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Multi-hazard groundwater risks to the drinking water supply in Bangladesh : challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; … - 2019
Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage depletion) vary across hydrological environments, posing unique...
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On "indirect" trade-related research and development spillovers
Lumenga-Neso, Olivier; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Schiff, … - 2001
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Sweetening the carrot : motivating public physicians for better performance
Garcia Prado, Ariadna - 2005
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Are incentives everything? : Payment mechanisms for health care providers in developing countries
Gauri, Varun - 2001
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India's journey toward an effective patent system
Abramson, Bruce - 2007
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Intellectual property rights and the TRIPS agreement : an overview of ethical problems and some proposed solutions
Sonderholm, Jorn - 2010
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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020
This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...
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The 2019 update of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators Database : an overview
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Neelsen, Sven; Smitz, Marc - 2019
This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection Indicators database. On the financial protection side, the changes include an increase in the number of indicators from five to 14; revisions to several previous data points,...
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Employment data in household surveys : taking stock, looking ahead
Desiere, Sam; Costa, Valentina - 2019
Standards Measurement Study, Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, Labor Force Surveys, and …-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture are used to illustrate these issues. The paper concludes by proposing short- and medium-term objectives … to improve the data quality in the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture …
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Making secure land tenure count for Global Development Goals and national policy : evidence from Zambia
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Hilhorst, Dorothea - 2019
Adding a module designed to measure land tenure-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators to the 2018 round of Zambia's labor force survey shows low transferability and high levels of tenure insecurity. Having a title is associated with greater transferability and reduced insecurity....
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