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Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks

Broccolini, Chiara; Lotti, Giulia; Maffioli, Alessandro; … - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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An assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene access in Bangladesh’s community health clinics

Joseph, George; Alam, Bushra Binte; Shrestha, Anne; … - 2019

Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved …

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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake

Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019

This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures, reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along...

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Meeting the sustainable development goal for electricity access : using a multi-scenario approach to understand the cost drivers of power infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : beyond the gap : how countries can afford the infrastructure they need while protecting the planet : background paper

Nicolas, Claire; Samson, Benjamin; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019

This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of scenarios that combine...

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Multi-hazard groundwater risks to the drinking water supply in Bangladesh : challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Shamsudduha, Mohammad; Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; … - 2019

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found … throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity (that is, water storage …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy …

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...

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Weather, Water, and Work : Climatic Water Variability and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Khan, Amjad M.; Fotue, Landry Kuate; Pongou, Roland; … - 2024

Vulnerability to climate change and water scarcity is increasing globally. How this affects individual employment …-Saharan Africa over from 2005 to 2018, this paper examines the causal relationship between water availability and labor market … rainfall and temperature on water availability. The findings suggest that extremely dry periods decrease employment by 2 …

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The drivers and impacts of water infrastructure reliability : a global analysis of manufacturing firms

Islam, Asif; Hyland, Marie - 2018

economy. This study examines how water infrastructure copes with severe weather fluctuations and analyzes the effect of … unreliable water supplies on the productivity of manufacturing firms, focusing predominately on firms in developing economies … to higher water outages, and that the overall impact is driven by the effects of drought on low-income and lower …

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The burden of water shortages on informal firms

Islam, Asif - 2018

population. This study uncovers the effect of poor water infrastructure on the productivity of informal firms. This is achieved … standard deviation of the total duration of water shortages in a month can lead to annual average losses of about 14.5 percent … of the monthly sales per worker for the average informal firm in the sample that uses water for business activities …

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Tracking the sustainable development goals : emerging measurement challenges and further reflections

Dang, Hai-Anh; Serajuddin, Umar - 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of the...

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