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Working Paper
Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?: Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

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...

Aid effectiveness Public health Water
Blog
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 life expectancy...

Child wellbeing Child nutrition South Africa
Working Paper
Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans

Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a well-established constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development...

Children Vulnerability Stunting
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