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When is shared sanitation improved sanitation? - The correlation between number of users and toilet hygiene
Günther, Isabel; Niwagaba, Charles B.; Lüthi, Christoph; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258956
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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region
Priebe, Jan; Gräb, Johannes - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301476
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Low malnutrition but high mortality: Explaining the paradox of the Lake Victoria region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281825
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Mobile Money Adoption and Response to Idiosyncratic Shocks : Empirics from Five Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Koomson, Isaac; Bukari, Chei; Villano, Renato - 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa, financial inclusion remains low, with households being more vulnerable to idiosyncratic shocks. Mobile money has been identified as having the potential to boost financial inclusion while closing the related gender- and rural-gaps in the process. Nonetheless, little is...
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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hasbi, Maude; Dubus, Antoine - 2019
Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...
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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya\'s Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012448
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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region
Priebe, Jan; Gräb, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565008
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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth with Non-Income Indicators
Klasen, Stephan; Harttgen, Kenneth; Grosse, Melanie - 2005
One existing shortcoming of current pro-poor growth concepts and measurements is that they are completely focused on income. But growth that is declared to be pro-poor where the measure is based only on income must not automatically imply improvement in the nonincome (or social) dimension of...
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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children thereby reducing their future earnings, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418635
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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities
Steiner, Susan; Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom - 2013
Private transfers between households in developing countries have been extensively studied and shown to be economically important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to modify the prevalent transfer behaviour in...
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