Slum dynamics:the interplay of remittances,waste disposal and health outcomes  

作　　者：Md Abdul Bari Mohammad Ajmal Khuram Ghulam Dastgir Khan Yuichiro Yoshida 

机构地区：[1]Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society,Hiroshima University,1-5-1,Kagamiyama,Higashihiroshima,739-8529,Japan [2]Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Hiroshima University,Kagamiyama,Higashihiroshima,Japan [3]The IDEC Institute and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Hiroshima University,1-5-1,Kagamiyama,Higashihiroshima,Hiroshima,Japan [4]School of Economics,Kwansei Gakuin University,1-155 Uegahara Ichiban-cho,Nishinomiya,Hyogo,Japan

出　　处：《Waste Disposal and Sustainable Energy》2024年第4期651-659,共9页废弃物处置与可持续能源(英文)

基　　金：funding provided by Hiroshima University.

摘　　要：Slum dwellers often fail to expend enough on waste disposal to have a healthy life,and remittances provide funds for a household to expend on the betterment of life conditions.This paper examines the impact of remittances on total monthly waste disposal expenditures and the impact of better waste disposal on monthly health expenditures among slum households in Bangladesh.Propensity score matching was adopted as an identification strategy to reduce selection bias.In this study,remittance includes both remittances received from within and outside Bangladesh.Remittance receipt equals 1 if a household receives remittances from within and/or outside of Bangladesh.Our results show that remittances increase expenditures on waste disposal by 28.77%to 32.74%among slum households in Bangladesh.Waste disposal expenditure is considered as an indicator of better waste disposal.Furthermore,we find that better waste disposal reduces total outpatient expenditures.A reduction in outpatient expenditure indicates that waste disposal results in better health conditions for slum dwellers.The findings of this study can be connected to Sustainable Development Goal 11,which targets sustainable cities and communities and suggests that remittances are a bottom-up financial mechanism for improving waste disposal at the micro level to improve health status.

关 键 词：REMITTANCE Waste disposal Outpatient expenditure SLUM BANGLADESH 

分 类 号：F83[经济管理—金融学]