) arrangement in the water sector. The research takes place within the context of a development debate and practice, which … identifies water as a key poverty issue in a substantial part of the developing countries, which advocates private sector … participation as a remedy to inadequate water management and which acknowledges good governance as a crucial requirement for …

Art. 9 of the European Water Framework Directive requires of the Member States up to 2010 a national pricing policy for … water-related services that ensures full cost-recovery including environmental and resource costs. The WFD's cost …-recovery of water services aims at setting efficient incentives for the use of scarce water resources. In the course of the …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

government. This paper examines the impact of the recent MWSS privatization on the coverage and quality of water and sanitation … services and ultimately on the groundwater levels, water pollution, human health, and welfare of the poor. Analysis of the …Although MWSS has the responsibility for providing urban water and sewerage services in Metro Manila, actual service …