Sometimes Subsidies Are Needed: Sanitation Is One Of Those Times

Sunday, April 19, 2015 - 01:20 in Health & Medicine

Poor sanitation is linked to 280,000 deaths per year worldwide but it has lots of benefits besides just saving lives. That is why sanitation is a key policy goal in many developing countries. Strange sociological voodoo like a "community motivation" model to improve hygiene has done nothing, according to a recent analysis of Bangladesh, but it would if there are subsidies for hygienic latrines targeted to the poor.  read more

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