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Bet Caeyers
Bet Caeyers holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford (UK) and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Economics at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics. Bet is an expert in development program evaluation, with a particular focus on sanitation and child development. She also has a strong research interest in empirical methodologies, including survey measurement and estimation techniques. Prior to joining EDePo in 2014, she worked for Oxfam GB in the capacity of Global Impact Evaluation Advisor, where she took the technical lead in Oxfam’s impact evaluation framework. She also previously worked as project manager at the Tanzania based survey company Economic Development Initiatives Ltd.
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वर्गीकृत ऋण और स्वच्छता संबंधी निवेश
ग्रामीण भारतीय परिवार शौचालय बनवाने का खर्च वहन नहीं कर पाने को शौचालय नहीं बनवाने का मुख्य कारण बताते हैं। इस लेख में ग्रामीण महाराष्ट्र के एक प्रयोग के जरिए जांच की गई है कि स्वच्छता के लिए वर्गीकृत सूक्ष्मऋण (माइक्रोफाइनांस लेबल्ड फॉर सैनिटेशन) स्वच्छता में निवेश बढ़ा सकता है या नहीं। इसमें पाया गया कि लक्षित परिवारों ने स्वच्छता ऋणों की मांग की और शौचालय के उपयोग में 9 प्रतिशत अंकों की वृद्धि हुई। हालांकि मोटे तौर पर आधे ऋणों का उपयोग स्वच्छता के लिए नहीं किया गया।
Labelled loans and sanitation investments
Rural Indian households report lack of affordability as the main reason for not having a toilet. This article investigates – through an experiment in rural Maharashtra – whether microcredit labelled for sanitation can increase sanitation investments. It finds that targeted households demand the sanitation loans, and toilet uptake increases by 9 percentage points; however, roughly half of the loans were not used for sanitation