{"product_id":"wash-economics-and-financing-towards-a-better-understanding-of-costs-and-benefits-9781789062465","title":"WASH Economics and Financing: towards a better understanding of costs and benefits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case for investment in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has been convincingly made. WASH is essential for protecting public health, is a human right and investing in it is compelling from a fiscal and economic point of view. While the estimated $114 billion per year of capital investments required to meet universal access to safely managed water and sanitation services by 2030 is often portrayed as a hefty price tag, current best estimates of benefit-to-cost ratios leave little doubt about its value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is less clear is how to allocate resources efficiently. There is limited evidence on the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of various policy and implementation choices. The underlying drivers of demand for (new) technologies and solutions are, for example, poorly understood, as is beneficiaries’ willingness to pay (WTP), leading to open questions about pricing policies and sustainable business models.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is in contrast to other infrastructure sectors, such as energy and transport, where active literature on the economics and financing of services has been more helpful in defining national and international policy. Our objective with this book is to encourage the WASH sector to follow suit and start to effectively engage and research these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this book therefore, are chapters which highlight some of the specificities, and challenges of conducting full economic evaluations of WASH interventions, provide a deeper understanding of potential solutions, and present new findings on costs and outcome measures, thereby contributing towards a fuller picture of WASH cost-effectiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditorial: WASH Economics and Financing: towards a better understanding of costs and benefits\u003cbr\u003e Britta Augsburg and Tristano Sainati\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInteraction of village and school latrines on educational outcomes in India\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer Orgill-Meyer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications in rural and urban contexts\u003cbr\u003e Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding the costs of urban sanitation: towards a standard costing model\u003cbr\u003e Tristano Sainati, Fiona Zakaria, Giorgio Locatelli, P. Andrew Sleigh and Barbara Evans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife-cycle costs approach for private piped water service delivery: a study in rural Viet Nam\u003cbr\u003e Melita Grant, Tim Foster, Dao Van Dinh, Juliet Willetts and Georgia Davis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn assessment of penetration for pay-to-fetch water kiosks in rural Ghana using the Huff gravity model\u003cbr\u003e Philip T. Deal and David A. Sabatini\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding water demand and usage in Mandalay city, Myanmar as a basis for resetting tariffs\u003cbr\u003e  Tanvi Nagpal, Henry Rawlings and Maël Balac\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnpacking piped water consumption subsidies: Who benefits? New evidence from 10 countries\u003cbr\u003e Laura Abramovsky, Luis Andrés, George Joseph, Juan Pablo Rud, Germán Sember and Michael Thibert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes payment by results work? Lessons from a multi-country WASH programme\u003cbr\u003e Guy Howard and Zach White\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenefits and costs of rural sanitation interventions in Ghana\u003cbr\u003e Mark Radin, Brad Wong, Catherine McManus, Saumitra Sinha, Marc Jeuland, Eugene Larbi, Benedict Tuffuor, Noble Kofi Biscoff and Dale Whittington\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpanding safe fecal sludge management in Kisumu, Kenya: an experimental comparison of latrine pit-emptying services\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Peletz, Andy Feng, Clara MacLeod, Dianne Vernon, Tim Wang, Joan Kones, Caroline Delaire, Salim Haji and Ranjiv Khush\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsers are willing to pay for sanitation, but not as much as they say: empirical results and methodological comparisons of willingness to pay for peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia using contingent valuation, discrete choice experiments, and hedonic pricing\u003cbr\u003e James B. 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