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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign

Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021

We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage …

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Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021

coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …

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A CLEWS Nexus modeling approach to assess water security trajectories and infrastructure needs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Muñoz-Castillo, Raúl; Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando; … - 2019

This working paper presents an up-to-date and prospective assessment of water security throughout the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, with a focus on infrastructure needs, to aid in strategic thinking towards planning and management in key water-using sectors such as agriculture,...

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Wildlife conservation and management in Kenya : towards a co-management approach

Mburu, John - 2004

The co-management approach of managing natural resources has increasingly become popular among conservationists and development practitioners since it overcomes the shortcomings of both the centralised management and community-based approaches that hinder harmonization of conflicting interests...

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Political institutions, policymaking, and economic policy in Latin America

Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2010

This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...

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Veto players and policy trade-offs : an intertemporal approach to study the effects of political institutions on policy

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano; Stein, Ernesto - 2010

The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. The veto player approach has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the...

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Being dependent rather than handicapped in France : does the institutional barrier at 60 affect care arrangements?

Tenand, Marianne - 2018

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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2015

I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that … sanitation, on the one hand, and child outcomes like the incidence of diarrhea or child development, on the other. These papers … the extension of coverage of water and sanitation infrastructure, although the evidence is limited to child mortality …

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