This document was published as a contribution to the International Year of Freshwater. Read more...
Practical guidelines demonstrating how water supply and sanitation projects in rural and peri-urban areas can be designed to meet user demand. The... Read more...
The question asked in this paper is whether the right to water should be a human right and whether a human right to water may help to achieve the UN... Read more...
In this study on water supply for the poor in Asian cities the author examens common views on privatization. Read more...
This book considers how contracting out can be further enhanced to deliver improved water and sanitation service provision in low- and middle-income... Read more...
Water is an increasingly scarce resource needing careful economic and environmental management. This paper describes the new World Bank policy... Read more...
Analysis of the effects of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization on municipal services, particularly... Read more...
Engendering Development is a Policy Research Report by the World Bank focusing on gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in... Read more...
This thesis tries to answer the following central question: "Which main actors and factors influence the behaviour of rural farmers with regard... Read more...