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Basic sanitation facility is not just related to public health and welfare, but closely related to poverty reduction and hardship relief. It is an important factor that affects the quality of human development. The proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility in total population of a country is an important part of HGDI.
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Data are available at the official website of UN, that is, http://www.un.org/chinese/News/story.asp?NewsID=19789
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A UN report: One third of the world’s population lack access to improved sanitation facilities by 2015, available at http://www.un.org/zh/development/population/newsdetails.asp?newsID=19789
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Global actions towards achieving the MDGs, available at http://www.un.org/chinese/millenniumgoals/unsystem/indicator31.htm
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Wang, N., Song, T. (2014). Sanitation Indicator: “Proportion of Population Using an Improved Sanitation Facility”. In: Li, X. (eds) Human Green Development Report 2014. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43591-5_12
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