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This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …
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This paper analyzes firm growth patterns in South Asia, using establishment level data from an Interim Enterprise Survey. The survey was conducted by the World Bank in 2009 and 2010 and covers seven countries in the region. The first finding suggests that size in the base year gains importance...
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Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved …
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Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene behaviors practiced in the household have been linked to development outcomes such as socio-emotional skills. This paper exploits data from impact evaluation surveys of a hygiene...
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This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical times in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale intervention that includes a mass media provincial campaign and a district-level community component. The analysis finds that the mass...
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This paper presents an overview and meta-analysis of the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions around … water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health and non-health outcomes, ranging from behavior change -- such as the … effects. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions were found to increase the likelihood of behavior changes and the …
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participation rates in South Asia. The Labor Force Surveys from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan are merged with the …
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censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …
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. Two illustrative scenarios are examined. The first scenario examines a complete tariff elimination among the Bhutan-Bangladesh-India …
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This paper benchmarks the quality of project economic analysis in South Asia against other World Bank regions, using data on project exits between 1975 and 2015. The results show that the South Asia region performs on par with the other regions, in that the share of project documents that report...
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