This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in developing countries. Perhaps most critical to successful water and sanitation investments is to discover and implement...

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure disruptions in 137 low- and middle-income countries, representing 78 percent of the world population and 80 percent of the GDP of low- and -middle-income countries. Specifically, this...

Developing countries are faced with a substantial and persistent infrastructure deficit. Climate change complicates this challenge, affecting the way we design and manage infrastructure (defined here as transport, power, water and sanitation) and increasing costs. But all is not negative:...

Zugang zu sicherem Trinkwasser sowie zu Abwassersystemen wurde von den Vereinten Nationen 2010 als grundlegendes Menschenrecht anerkannt. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation beschreibt die Schaffung solcher Zugänge als Baustein einer effektiven Gesundheitspolitik. In etlichen Entwicklungsländern...

For the last couple of decades, developed as well as developing countries have relied on procurement models such as public-private partnerships (PPP) to finance, develop, manage and operate water infrastructure facilities. However, as in the case of other public infrastructure projects, not all...