Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications

Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul Andrés; Augsburg, Britta

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2015.1515

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dc.creator	Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul Andrés
dc.creator	Augsburg, Britta	spa
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-28T15:48:15Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-28T15:48:15Z
dc.date.created	2015	spa
dc.description.abstract	Poor sanitation is an important policy issue facing India, which accounts for over half of the 1.1 billion people worldwide that defecate in the open [JMP, 2012]. Achieving global sanitation targets, and reducing the social and economic costs of open defecation, therefore requires e ectively extending sanitation services to India's citizens. The Indian Government has shown strong commitment to improving sanitation. However, uptake and usage of safe sanitation remains low: almost 50% of Indian households do not have access to a private or public latrine (2011 Indian census). This highlights the need for novel approaches to foster the uptake and sustained usage of safe sanitation in this context. This study contributes to addressing this need in two ways: First, we use primary data collected in both rural and urban contexts in two states of India, to understand determinants of toilet ownership and acquisition. A theoretical model is presented accompanying our empirical ndings. Second, while ours is not a randomized control trial, we are able to o er a rich picture on the main determinants and potential outcomes of sanitation uptake. Contrary to many studies on sanitation, our focus is not primarily on health outcomes but we emphasize economic and social status considerations. Further, toilet acquisition is analyzed in the context of an intervention that alleviated one of the major constraints to acquisition nancial resources - which allows us to highlight the importance of attending this constraint. These three contributions have important implications for the design of strategies to promote sanitation, a major focus of many governments of developing countries and international organizations at present.	eng
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dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2015.1515
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28461
dc.language.iso	eng	spa
dc.publisher	ECONSTOR Make Your Publications Visible	spa
dc.relation.citationIssue	No. W15
dc.relation.citationTitle	IFS Working Paper
dc.relation.ispartof	IFS Working Paper, No. W15/15, ( 2015); 39 pp.	spa
dc.relation.uri	https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/119574/1/827011288.pdf	spa
dc.rights.accesRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.acceso	Abierto (Texto Completo)	spa
dc.source	IFS Working Paper	spa
dc.source.instname	instname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.source.reponame	reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subject.keyword	Sanitation	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Poverty	spa
dc.subject.keyword	Providing subsidies	spa
dc.title	Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications	spa
dc.type	preprint	eng
dc.type.hasVersion	info:eu-repo/semantics/draft
dc.type.spa	Pre-print	spa