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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases
Jha, Nitish - 2010
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293264
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Globalization and the urban poor
Perlman, Janice E. - 2007
The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ‘global south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities—slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns—collectively called ‘informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284865
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Toward a Strategic Urban Development and Housing Policy for the Philippines
Carino, Benjamin V.; Corpuz, Arturo G. - 2009
Philippine cities provide the highest levels of service and living standards in the country. Much of what happens to the country in terms of production and employment, income and consumption, and access to basic services and amenities will continue to be determined by the performance of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421149
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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
manifestation of the equity politics in India (the peri-urban households claiming their entitlement to subsidized water), or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279042
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Poverty incidence and sectoral growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia
Warr, Peter G. - 2002
In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279267
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Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling
Galiani, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2010
Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429312
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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280168
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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280655
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Public-Private-Community Partnerships in Management and Delivery of Water to Urban Poor: The Case of Metro Manila
David, Cristina C.; Inocencio, Arlene B. - 2001
In the Philippines, the Public-Private-Community Partnerships (PPCPs) are serving the poor with water through public faucets, group taps, bulk water, and individual connections. The removal of technical and institutional barriers in providing water in urban poor communities or informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429660
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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
innerhalb der Wasserversorgung und Abwasserentsorgung durch Kooperation Synergieeffekte realisiert werden können. Basierend auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291672