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Stunted growth, orphans, and access to sanitation services in South Africa
Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for cognitive development and is a well-established constraint to individual productivity and...
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Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...
Working Paper
Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict ReconstructionIn this paper, an attempt is made to identify some key challenges for infrastructure sectors in post-conflict reconstruction. In spite of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, infrastructure can be damaged in conflicts, and reconstructing infrastructure...
Journal Article
An Uncertainty Approach to Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Zambezi River BasinPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
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Regional Climate Change of the Greater Zambezi River BasinPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
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Millennium Development Goal 7Access to water and sanitation (target 10) is an important ingredient of quality of life. As per WHO-UNICEF assessments, globally, 77 per cent of population had access to water in 1990. This proportion has increased to 83 per cent in 2002, thus, on...
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The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the MekongThe Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...
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A Hybrid Approach to Incorporating Climate Change and Variability into Climate Scenario for Impact AssessmentsTraditional ‘delta-change’ approach of scenario generation for climate change impact assessment to water resources strongly depends on the selected base-case observed historical climate conditions that the climate shocks are to be super-imposed. This...
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Lush Fields and Parched ThroatsGroundwater resources in Gujarat (India) have been depleting at an darning rate in recent years. The most visible symptom of this phenomenon is the decline of water tables in large pats of the state. The scarcity of groundwater is most severe during...
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Macro–micro feedback links of water management in South AfricaThe pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial expansion, ongoing rapid urbanization, and government programs to provide access to water to...
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The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast AsiaThis paper aims to contribute to understanding the existing knowledge gaps in the linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia and explores the political economy of energy transition in the Mekong region (MR). Investigating the struggle...
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Aid and the Social Sectors: Reflections from the Stockholm Results Meeting17 April 2013 Tony Addison and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa We learnt much from the ReCom Results meeting on 13th March in Stockholm on aid and the social...
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How to Assess the Effectiveness of Development Aid ProjectsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
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Does Aid Improve Public Service Delivery?Part of Journal Special Issue Foreign Aid Heterogeneity
Working Paper
Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of...
Book Chapter
Infrastructure Development in Post-Conflict ReconstructionPart of Book Making Peace Work
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Does Aid Improve Public Service Delivery?The expected increase in aid to Africa will put a big challenge for public service delivery. Using a simultaneous equation model, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of the volume and volatility of aid on education, health, water and...
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Water 'Scarcity' in Chennai, IndiaThe main contributions of the paper can be divided into five areas. (a) It tries to explain conceptually, the institutional arrangements for water supply in Chennai and whether the state government’s decision about improving the performance of the...
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Consumer Preferences for Water Supply?This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options...
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Tackling the Main Causes of Child Mortality in Developing Countries: Evidence from Non-clinical Interventions
30 October 2013 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Children have been at the centre of recent global efforts to improve well-being conditions in developing countries...
Research Brief
Climate change effects on irrigation demand and crop yields in South AfricaThe demand for irrigation is likely to increase in South Africa as a result of increased temperatures and evaporation rates. Rain-fed agricultural crops are likely to experience a decline in average annual yields. This is particularly the case for...
Research Brief
Future climate scenarios for South AfricaMore intense climate changes are expected in South Africa if GHG emissions are not constrained. Increased GHG emissions are likely to result in increases in average annual surface temperatures and higher evaporation rates. Average precipitation...
Book Chapter
Regional Hydropolitics in Mainland South East AsiaPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Reasons for Child Mortality and Anthropometric FailurePart of Book Poverty and Undernutrition
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Analysis and Management of WatershedsPart of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues
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Achieving the Water and Sanitation Millennium Development GoalPart of Book Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
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Power and WaterPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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