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January 1, 2024
Access to electricity has been linked to economic growth through improved agricultural and firm productivity, public service delivery, enhanced household investment in human capital, and increased net income and general quality of life. Yet, as of 2024, mo ...
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January 1, 2016
Key messages • The Ganga is an incredibly important resource for over 600 million people living in South Asia, and delivers a wide variety of economic benefits across the riparian countries that include irrigation, domestic and industrial water supply, hyd ...
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January 1, 2016
Introduction The Ganges Basin and its downstream delta, covering an area of roughly 1.2 million km2 and home to more than 500 million people living in China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, is the most populous river system in the world. People living in the ...
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January 1, 2015
Introduction In economics, an individual’s demand is generally deemed to be equivalent to his/her willingness (and ability) to pay (WTP) for a specific unit of a good or service. The concept of demand is theoretically simple; in practice, however, measurin ...
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January 1, 2015
Introduction Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) are two specific methodologies that aim to provide guidance on how to best allocate scarce resources across potential interventions or investments (Petitti 1999, Boardman et al. ...
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January 1, 2009
The 1980s were designated the International Water and Sanitation Decade, and the international community committed itself to ensuring that everyone in the world would have access to at least basic water and sanitation services by 1990. This target was not ...
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