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Economic aspects of drinking water supply and sanitation in Africa with partiuclar reference to rural areas / Economic Commission for Africa
ECA; 1989 - 63p.
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User organizations for sustainable water services / Subramanian, Ashok
This paper addresses the basic question: under what conditions are user organizations most effective in managing water systems? The first part examines the conditions under which sustainable water user associations (WUAs) can be fostered in the irrigation sector. The second part deals with water and sanitation users' associations (WASAs) in the dom [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 162p.
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Malawi: Basic needs
Malawi's development strategy since independence, although emphasizing economic growth and efficiency, has included the alleviation of rural poverty with primary emphasis on projects to raise agricultural productivity and secondary emphasis on education and health. This orientation has succeeded in giving Malawi perhaps the highest economic growth [...]
World Bank; 1981 - 68p.
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Global perspectives for food production and consumption / Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
IFPRI; 1992 - pp.145-169
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Infrastructure coverage and the poor: a global perspective / Komives, Kristin
The authors use the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys from 15 countries (covering more than 55,500 households) to examine the relationship between infrastructure coverage and household income. The results show that throughout the world all income groups have much higher levels of coverage for electricity than for other [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 46p., Ref.
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Financing the future: Infrastructure needs in Latin America, 200-2005 / Fay, Marianne
To assess five-year demand for infrastructure investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the private sector's role in meeting this demand, the author developed a model to predict future demand for infrastructure - defined as what consumers and producers would ask for, given their income and level of economic activity. Overall projections ov [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 25p., Ref.
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Does decentralization increase responsiveness to local needs? Evidence from Bolivia / Faguet, Jean-Paul
Bolivia’s recent decentralization involved the creation of hundreds of new municipalities, devolution of substantial resources from central agencies to local governments, and the development of innovative institutions of local governance. Detailed study of investment sector-by-sector shows that objective indicators of need are the most important [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 44p., Bibliogr.
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Institutions, politics and contracts: The attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru / Alcazar, Lorena
The main reason Lima failed to implement a concession was geographical: the scarcity of water sources meant high marginal costs, partly for pumping water from deep wells and building adequate storage for dry periods. High extraction costs were compounded by years of neglect; much of the system needed to be replaced. Attracting private investors mea [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 56p., Ref.
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Information and modeling issues in designing water and sanitation subsidy schemes / Gomez-Lobo, Andres
In designing a rational scheme for subsidizing water services, it is important to support the choice of design parameters with empirical analysis that stimulates the impact of subsidy options on the target population. Otherwise, there is little guarantee that the subsidy program will meet its objectives. But such analysis is informationally demandi [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 35p.
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The Buenos Aires water concession / Alcazar, Lorena
The signing of a concession contract for the Buenos Aires water and sanitation system in December 1992, attracted worldwide attention, and caused considerable controversy in Argentina. It was one of the world's largest concessions, but the case was also interesting for other reasons. The concession was implemented rapidly, in contrast with slow imp [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 62p., Ref.
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South Asia: those who are left behind issues and perspectives / Islam , Nurul
South-Asia contains 46.4 percent ofthepoor ofthe developing world and the large majority ofthem live in ruralareas.The ruralpoor are predominantly smalland landlessfarmers, the exremepooramongst oftenthem do not have access tofood providing minimum nutritional requirements. The mainstream thinking, regarding appropriate development strategy foralle [...]
IFPRI; 1991 - pp.7-40
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Urban sanitation planning manual based on Jakarta case study / Zajac, Vincent
The provision of affordable water supply and sanitation services to all population groups--rich and poor--in urban areas requires the use of a variety of technologies, supported by information and education activities. Experience has shown that beneficiaries, in particular those living in areas with few or none of the customary municipal services, [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 158p., Bibliogr.
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Paraguay - Third rural water supply and sanitation project / World Bank
The objective of the Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation project is to improve health conditions in the rural population. The project will consist of: (a) building water supply systems in rural communities; (b) provision and improvement of on-site sanitation systems; (c) provision of water supply and sanitation systems to the dispersed rural po [...]
World Bank; - 28p., Annex
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The impact of the quality of health care on children's nutrition and survival in Ghana / Lavy, Victor
It is critical, especially during periods of budget restraint, to identify the beneficiaries of social sector investments and the extent to which these investments influence the development process. This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the health of children and adults in [...]
WORLD BANK; 1995 - 45p., Bibliogr.
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Liberalisation and Universal Access to Basic Services. Telecommunications, Water ans Sanitation, Financial Services, and Electricity / OECD
Access to basic services plays an important role in both individual well-being and a country's economic development. For this reason, general availability of these services to citizens, regardless of income level and geographical location, has generally been viewed as an important public policy goal. However, the precise definition of this goal and [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 272p; Ref.
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The Inspection panel. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Development Association. Annual Report: August 1-July 31, 1998 / World Bank
World Bank; - 56p.
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World Bank publication in review / World Bank
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World Bank; 1995 - 48p.
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Water resources management / World Bank
Water resources have been one of the most important areas of the Bank's lending during the past three decades. Water is an increasingly scarce resource requiring careful economic and environmental management. As the demand for water increases for human, industrial and irrigated agriculture, new challenges call for new approaches to supplying water [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 140p., Bibliogr.
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The private sector and development : five case studies / World Bank
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is in the business of reducing poverty and encouraging economic development in poorer countries through the private sector. IFC carries out this mandate primarily by investing in a wide variety of private projects in developing countries, always investing with other sponsors [...]
World Bank; - 57p.
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