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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019
World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008373
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Tracking the sustainable development goals : emerging measurement challenges and further reflections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Serajuddin, Umar - 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022362
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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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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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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020
Development Goal-related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to … minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229769
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Meeting the sustainable development goal for electricity access : using a multi-scenario approach to understand the cost drivers of power infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : bey...
Nicolas, Claire; Samson, Benjamin; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019
This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of scenarios that combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007967
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051874
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An assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene access in Bangladesh’s community health clinics
Joseph, George; Alam, Bushra Binte; Shrestha, Anne; … - 2019
Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health facilities is now gaining momentum with the new SDG targets that governments have vowed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059014
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Eradicating poverty in fragile states : prospects of reaching the "high-hanging" fruit by 2030
Burt, Alison; Hughes, Barry; Milante, Gary - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429309
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Measuring Social Sustainability : A Multidimensional Approach
Ballon Fernandez, Paola Marcela; Cuesta, José - 2024
While the concept of social sustainability is growing in salience, there is little consensus on how to measure it. This … original measure of social sustainability and its associated fragilities in the form of multidimensional social gaps. The … measure is anchored conceptually in the new social sustainability in development framework and applied empirically using a …
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