Economic impacts of sanitation in Vietnam A five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) Thang, P., Tuan, H., Hutton, G. (2008)
The study conducted a quantitative assessment of the impacts of poor sanitation on health, water resources, environment, tourism and other welfare indicators. The inclusion of health was based on well-established links between sanitation and disease incidence. On the other hand, water impacts were deemed important because poor sanitation is a signifi cant cause of water pollution. This in turn leads to costly avertive behavior in response to less usable water resources. Moreover, pollution also aff ects the productivity of water resources by way of lower output of fi sheries. Environment impact cannot be ignored since unimproved sanitation aff ects the quality of land, and renders it unattractive or even unusable for productive use. Other welfare impacts were included because the absence of improved sanitation aff ects people in terms of the time spent accessing facilities, productivity in work and school and intangible welfare impacts. Finally, tourism was included in the study because poor sanitation aff ects the country’s attractiveness as a tourist destination.
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Thang, P., Tuan, H., Hutton, G. (2008). Economic impacts of sanitation in Vietnam A five-country study conducted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), USA
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