Susanna Smets

World Bank
Susanna Smets

Susanna Smets is a Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist with the World Bank Water Global Practice. She has over fifteen years of experience, in terms of investment operations, as well as analytical and advisory services to clients in in East Asia, South Asia, as well as Europe and Central Asia. She holds an MSc. in Water resources management from Wageningen University (NL), as well as an MBA in International Development from the Open University in the UK

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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।

01 August 2019
Human Development
Human Development

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

15 May 2019
Human Development
Human Development
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