According to current estimates, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the 1.1 billion people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 will only be achieved by 2040, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Why will it take this long? Because tariffs are unaffordable and...

Cash transfer programmes are emerging as indispensable component of poverty reduction strategies. The objectives of alleviating short-term poverty and long-term human capital building are what make cash transfers, particularly conditional ones, attractive. In Latin America, where cash transfers...

Le commerce mondial du khat est controversé. Les Etats-Unis et la plupart des pays européens l?ont interdit, l?assimilant à une substance psychotrope. Et, pourtant, sa culture contribue de manière significative aux revenus des agriculteurs d?Afrique orientale.1 Bien que les pouvoirs publics...

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This paper investigates the impact of water service privatization in Bolivia. It compares the performance of cities in which the service was privatized (La Paz and El Alto) with a city in which it is managed as a cooperative (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) and one where the service is publicly...

O progresso realizado nos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (ODM) é frequentemente monitorado em termos de níveis de indicadores, com base em quão ?alinhados? ou ?desalinhados? encontram-se os indicadores em relação às metas para 2015. Em contraste, este One Pager introduz um...

Progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is often monitored in terms of levels of indicators, based on how ?on track? or ?off track? the indicators are from their 2015 targets. This One Pager, by contrast, introduces a method for evaluating the commitment of countries, as measured by...