Rural infrastructure indicators in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Mongolia (Anglais)

This review presents rural infrastructure indicators (telecom; electricity and heat; water, wastewater, solid waste, and drainage; and roads) for Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), and Mongolia collected in April 2003 by the World Bank....  Voir la suite This review presents rural infrastructure indicators (telecom; electricity and heat; water, wastewater, solid waste, and drainage; and roads) for Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), and Mongolia collected in April 2003 by the World Bank. A rapid assessment of the current state of infrastructure in the rural areas is provided through key infrastructure indicators. During the preparation of this report, an important recent study, "The Poverty-Environment Nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic" by Susmita Dasgupta, and others, was reviewed. Disaggregated data sets for incidence of poverty, population density, and environmental problems-that is, deforestation, slope stability, access to clean water and sanitation, and air pollution-and health impacts-respiratory ailments, child deaths, and diarrhea-were collected. In Cambodia, the study showed a close spatial correlation between poverty and the lack of access to clean water and revealed that poor households have much less access to safe water than higher income households. In Lao PDR a strong correlation was identified between poverty and lack of access to safe water, which highlighted the strong relationship between infant diarrhea and poverty. The study concluded that poverty, safe water, sanitation, and infant mortality from diarrhea may constitute another important poverty-environment linkage in Lao PDR. With the collected data in this report, and the findings outlined in the Dasgupta report a clear link among poverty, infrastructure service level, quality of life, environmental issues, and health is presented. This link is visible in both urban and rural settings. The rural indicators are presented here along with national indicators gleaned from public sources.  Réduire