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Universal Access to Drinking Water: the Role of Aid

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  • Robert Bain
  • Rolf Luyendijk
  • Jamie Bartram

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Financing and the role of aid within the water sector are poorly understood. We estimate the levels of spending achieved in developing countries during the Millennium Development Goals period to be US$80 billion per year. Aid represented a substantial proportion of total sector financing in sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania (25 and 10 per cent, respectively) but less in other regions. Longitudinal analysis shows no detectable effect of volume of aid on progress. Importantly, we were unable to evaluate 'catalytic' aid.

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  • Robert Bain & Rolf Luyendijk & Jamie Bartram, 2013. "Universal Access to Drinking Water: the Role of Aid," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-088, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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