Solving India’s sanitation puzzle
Vyas, S.
(2015).
Solving India’s sanitation puzzle.
60% of the world’s open defecation happens in India, and 70% of households in rural India defecate in the open. Widespread open defecation persists in rural India not because of a lack of infrastructure, but because of unique cultural practices concerning ritual impurity, and a history of caste and untouchability
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE > Research Centres > International Growth Centre |
| Date Deposited | 21 Jun 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81896 |
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