Shi, Anqing

How Access to Urban Potable Water and Sewerage Connections Affects Child Mortality Shi, Anqing [electronic resource] / Shi, Anqing - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2000 - 1 online resource (36 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .

January 2000 - Lower child mortality is associated with improved access to urban potable water and sewerage connections, government involvement in the provision of local water services, and private or parastatal participation in the provision of sewerage connections. Using a city-level database of Global Urban Indicators, Shi finds that: Improved access to urban potable water and sewerage connections is consistently associated with low child mortality; Government involvement in providing water services, especially locally, significantly reduces child mortality; Private or parastatal participation in providing sewerage connections is associated with low child mortality; Rapid urban growth and high levels of poverty within the city are correlated with high child mortality. This paper - a product of Finance, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the relationship between finance and poverty reduction. The author may be contacted at ashi@worldbank.org.

10.1596/1813-9450-2274


Child Mortality
City Development Strategies
City Population
Communities & Human Settlements
Developing Countries
Diseases
Drinking Water
Health, Nutrition and Population
Human Settlements
Infant
Infant Deaths
Live Births
Mortality Differentials
Nutrition
Policy
Poor People
Population Policies
Poverty
Rural Areas
Sanitation
Town Water Supply and Sanitation
Urban Areas
Urban Development
Urban Population
Urban Population Growth
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
Water Supply and Sanitation
World Health Organization

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