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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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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830
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Every drop counts : assessing aid for water and sanitation
Anand, Prathivadi Bhayankaram - 2013
Water and sanitation sectors have been the 'natural' subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in assessing impact and effectiveness of aid in...
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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? : evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022
Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the...
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Adaptation advantage to climate change impacts on road infrastructure in Africa through 2100
Chinowsky, Paul; Schweikert, Amy; Strzepek, Niko; … - 2011
an average loss of opportunity to expand road networks from a low of 22 per cent to a high of 235 per cent in the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991431
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Road infrastructure and climate change in Vietnam
Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - 2012
to climate change impacts. This paper focuses on the physical asset of road infrastructure in Vietnam by evaluating the … climate scenarios, the mean additional cost of maintaining the same road network through 2050 amount to US$10.5 billion. The … current and near future. -- climate change ; road infrastructure ; stressor response functions ; Vietnam …
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The economic impact of climate change on road infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa countries : evidence from Ghana
Twerefou, Daniel Kwabena; Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; … - 2014
-known. However, little has been done to assess its economic impact on road infrastructure. This work assesses the economic impact of … climate change on road infrastructure using the stressor-response methodology. Our analysis indicates that it will … change (no adapt scenario). However, if the country adapts the designing and construction of new road infrastructure expected …
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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Can climate finance achieve gender equity in developing countries?
Wong, Sam - 2014
We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the 'contextual-procedural-distributive' equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mitigation, adaptation and disaster management strategies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259984
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Development assistance and climate finance
Arndt, Channing - 2015
The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the 'polluter pays' principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against...
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