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Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …
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unfavourable —i.e. poor public infrastructure and low-quality sanitation facilities. Promotion efforts are hence best targeted …
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The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local capabilities of both institutions and the private business sector. Environmental regulation alone is a weak instrument if the institutional and business environment cannot...
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It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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Access to essential infrastructure services such as water, sanitation, and garbage collection can considerably affect … infrastructure services as a critical component of comprehensive strategies to enhance early childhood development and health in low …- and middle-income countries. We emphasize the importance of considering the quality and type of infrastructure services …
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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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Caribbean (LAC) region, with a focus on infrastructure needs, to aid in strategic thinking towards planning and management in … comes to CLEWS nexus and laying out water infrastructure needs for addressing current and likely future problems under a … range of such scenarios. The analysis that leads to estimates of infrastructure needs in the water sector is based on a …
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I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …
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