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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation

Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Water and sanitation sectors have been the .natural. subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in asse

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Universal access to drinking water: the role of aid

Bain, Robert; Luyendijk, Rolf; Bartram, Jamie - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Financing and the role of aid within the water sector are poorly understood. We estimate the levels of spending achieved in developing countries during the Millennium Development Goals period to be US$80 billion per year. Aid represented a substantial pro

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Health and the Urban Transition Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment

Spencer, James H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back … important urbanization processes in poor countries. This paper describes an emerging ‘health transition’ and the importance of … socio-ecological approaches to understanding new health challenges in the developing world and uses the empirical case of …

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Water 'Scarcity' in Chennai, India: Institutions, Entitlements and Aspects of Inequality in Access

Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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Consumer Preferences for Water Supply? An Application of Choice Models to Urban India

Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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The prospects for an imminent demographic dividend in Africa: The case for cautious optimism

Basu, Alaka M.; Basu, Kaushik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to have stal

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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia

Leiderer, Stefan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence …

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The World Bank.s health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid

Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The World Bank.s health sector projects in Timor-Leste.the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the … Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project.have been among the few successful operations it has funded in …

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Changes in climatic factors and malaria in Uganda

Yawe, Bruno Lule - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in Uganda over the period 2000-2011. A panel dataset comprising temperature, temperature standard deviation; minimum humidity; maximum hum

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational .diversity dividend.

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; Nino-Zarazua, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical ev

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