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Universal access to drinking water: The role of aid
Bain, Robert; Luyendijk, Rolf; Bartram, Jamie - 2013
Financing and the role of aid within the water sector are poorly understood. We estimate the levels of spending achieved in developing countries during the Millennium Development Goals period to be US$80 billion per year. Aid represented a substantial proportion of total sector financing in...
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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation
Anand, P.B. - 2013
so that aid is used more often in effectively catalysing a range of institutions in finding solutions and less in terms …
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Health and the urban transition: Effects of household perceptions, illness, and environmental pollution on clean water investment
Spencer, James H. - 2010
Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back to one of its original roles. Current research, however, has focused on industrialized cities, overlooking some of the important urbanization processes in poor countries. This...
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Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries
Kundu, Amitabh; Kundu, Debolina - 2010
This paper overviews the debate on the relationship between the measures of globalization, economic growth and pace of urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing moderate to high urban growth for three to...
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A quest for institutional foundations towards inclusive development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nissanke, Machiko - 2015
. Viewing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, the concepts of endogenous institutions and …
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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …
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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Thorbecke, Erik - 2014
villages. Finally, the architecture of inclusive institutions in Africa is reviewed. …
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Can the context mediate macro-policy outcomes? Contextual differences in the returns to Bolsa Familia in Brazil
von Jacobi, Nadia - 2014
Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers. Building on Amartya Sen's work, I assess the...
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The risks to education systems from design mismatch and global isomorphism: Concepts, with examples from India
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing countries are the result of a capability trap (Pritchett et al. 2010). Two phenomena reinforce persistent failure of schooling systems to produce adequate...
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