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The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered … improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used … percent of households have access to private sanitation facilities; the remaining 78 percent share their toilet with an …
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that the majority of Kampala’s urban poor have access to on-site sanitation facilities. Despite the widespread … accessibility to sanitation, the conditions of many facilities are unsatisfactory due to the generally large number of users per … questioning the true level of sanitation access in Kampala’s low-income areas. Household investment in good-quality on …
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70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin …, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain … play the most decisive role for sanitation demand and ownership. At current income levels, sanitation coverage will only …
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and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom … negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to …
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combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies - Swacch Bharat or 'Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
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Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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In most developing countries, there is a huge gap in the delivery of services like water and sanitation between rural … well as financing that might influence access to water and sanitation in rural versus urban areas. Decentralisation seems … to have a positive effect on rural provision of water and sanitation, whereas the effects of sectoral aid and controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563935
and sanitation outcomes, taking also into account the institutions related to public service delivery, including freedom … negatively associated. Aid volatility is associated with better outcomes in sanitation, water and infant mortality, contrary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031910
70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin …, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain … play the most decisive role for sanitation demand and ownership. At current income levels, sanitation coverage will only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392366
In most developing countries, there is a huge gap in the delivery of services like water and sanitation between rural … well as financing that might influence access to water and sanitation in rural versus urban areas. Decentralisation seems … to have a positive effect on rural provision of water and sanitation, whereas the effects of sectoral aid and controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078544