Private Means Better? A Water and Sanitation Quasi-experimental Design
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Water and Sanitation; Private sector management; Treatment Effect;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
- L95 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Gas Utilities; Pipelines; Water Utilities
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2021-08-30 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-ISF-2021-08-30 (Islamic Finance)
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