Impact of improved water services in informal neighbourhoods in Ouagadougou

Anne Briand () and Amandine Loyal Laré-Dondarini ()
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Anne Briand: LASTA - Laboratoire d'Analyse des Sociétés, Transformations et Adaptations - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université
Amandine Loyal Laré-Dondarini: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School

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Abstract: This article examines the impact of a project to improve water services in underserved neighbourhoods in Ouagadougou on household water access conditions. We used the propensity-score matching method to analyse data from a survey carried out in 2011, and found that the improvement project cut the cost of water neighbourhood-wide by 94 CFA francs per cubic meter, reduced the portion of this expense by 1% of the average household budget, and cut the daily time to collect water by 10–13 min. The results that we obtained through the propensity-score matching method differ from those obtained by simply comparing the averages of the neighbourhoods participating in the project to those that did not participate. This indicates that the propensity-score matching method of impact evaluation is valuable in supplying decision makers with nonbiased estimates of the link between ease of access to water and poverty reduction.

Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; Poverty; Economics; Water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09-16
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Published in Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (16), pp.1571-1583. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2016.1221044⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1221044

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