A5028647178- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Water resources management and optimization
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- International Development and Aid
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Economic Growth and Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Community Health and Development
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- School Choice and Performance
Stockholm University
2019-2024
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2023-2024
Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2023-2024
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2023
Columbia University
2023
Child Health Research Foundation
2023
Asian Development Bank Institute
2023
Earth Island Institute
2011
Centre for Sustainable Energy
2011
University of Cambridge
2011
Does better population health lead to growth in per capita income? Theory is ambiguous and empirical evidence very limited. In 2001, a steep fall antiretroviral (ARV) drug prices triggered rapid massive expansion of ARV therapy coverage lower-income countries. Exploiting the sharp resultant changes health, I show that led GDP capita. The positive effects on most likely persist for around four years. could explain third sub-Saharan African "growth miracle".
Most development practitioners would list engaging communities in the provision of public services among best practices for improving access. However, whether community participation enhances and use relative to a non-participatory approach is largely unknown because few studies compare impacts when same service intervention implemented with without participation. This field experiment compares three approaches providing safe water rural Bangladesh. Delegating decisions increases by about...
Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede translation of sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals policy-makers in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during successful application; (ii) scaling up time when are short-term potential impacts long-term; (iii) across space, local sites...
Can transparency interventions improve WASH service provision? We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of intervention, deliberative multi-stakeholder workshop initiated with community scorecard exercise, in schools rural Bangladesh. To measure impacts, we combine survey data, direct observations, and administrative data. The intervention leads moderate but consistent improvements knowledge standards practices, institutions for management, does not school provision or change...
Access to safe drinking water in rural Bangladesh remains a perpetual challenge. Most households are exposed either arsenic or faecal bacteria their primary source of water, usually tubewell. Improving tubewell cleaning and maintenance practices might reduce exposure contamination at potentially low cost, but whether current effective uncertain, as does the extent which best practice approaches improve quality. We used randomized experiment evaluate how effectively three improved quality,...
The importance of community participation in projects the developing and developed world is widely recognised, despite considerable debate regarding what means practice. In context, there a distinct on how can achieve its stated goals creating ‘ownership’ among targeted beneficiaries without becoming susceptible to elite capture or excluding marginalised groups. Projects that involve engineering analysis present further challenge: incorporate external technical expertise decision-making so...
Abstract Health, and in turn income welfare, depend on access to safe drinking water. Although the majority of rural households worldwide obtain water from community sources, there is limited evidence about how effectively these sources provide This study combines a randomized experiment with quality testing evaluate impact program that provides deep tubewells Bangladesh. The reduces exposure arsenic, major natural pollutant, but not fecal contamination. Households may use fewer...
Abstract Existing strategies for improving global access to safe drinking water have met only limited success. We consider an unglamorous and often neglected dimension of infrastructure provision: cleaning. randomly assigned caretakers community wells participate in a training workshop about how clean wells. Thirteen seventeen months later, with receive negligible rates contamination Escherichia coli (13 months: 2%; 17 4%), while control substantial E. 14%; 19%). Rates any coliform bacteria...
Abstract More than a billion people live in densely-populated informal settlements worldwide. Crowded living conditions and limited resources may render these populations vulnerable to the health economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic. Representative longitudinal survey data are needed accurately measure impacts populations, but such scarce. Using satellite spatial sampling ensure representativeness, we use on 1,033 households comprising 3,681 individuals collected pre- post-pandemic pandemic...