How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
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How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
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Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#2“In Matlab, a part of Bangladesh with good data, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery have dropped by about 90% since the early 1990s (see chart).”
I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#3“In Matlab, a part of Bangladesh with good data, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery have dropped by about 90% since the early 1990s (see chart).” I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.
I came back just to say the same! It is fascinating.
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#4“In Matlab, a part of Bangladesh with good data, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery have dropped by about 90% since the early 1990s (see chart).” I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.
And Matlab has access to good data.
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#5The approach to build latrines for the poorest people then shame the "rich" into building ones for themselves is marvelously devious.
According to the article, even marriages were canceled after it was revealed that the family of one of the newly weds is without this essential status simbol.
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#6“In Matlab, a part of Bangladesh with good data, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery have dropped by about 90% since the early 1990s (see chart).” I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.
More interesting, I believe it is the Arabic word (متطلب) which means Requirement, or possibly Farsi مطلب which means Subject or Question.
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Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#7The approach to build latrines for the poorest people then shame the "rich" into building ones for themselves is marvelously devious. According to the article, even marriages were canceled after it was revealed that the family of one of the newly weds is without this essential status simbol.
A relative traveled to African villages. Currently, farmers shame neighbors who do not have neat & clean fields after harvest. His organization tries to turn that around; yields are better when harvest waste "fertilizes" the field. They are now "shaming" the farmers that cleanup their fields to raise the yield of the field.
> Mushfiq Mobarak, an economist at Yale University who has researched sanitation decisions, suggests that better-off people may be more likely to copy poor people than the other way round. If a wealthy person has something, you do not necessarily feel ashamed not to have it.
So the key is in shaming all but the absolute poorest. Interesting insight!
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#8The approach to build latrines for the poorest people then shame the "rich" into building ones for themselves is marvelously devious. According to the article, even marriages were canceled after it was revealed that the family of one of the newly weds is without this essential status simbol.
About 100 years ago in New Zealand my great great grandfather was very proud of his “WC”. Of course only guests were allowed to use it!
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#9“In Matlab, a part of Bangladesh with good data, deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery have dropped by about 90% since the early 1990s (see chart).” I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.
More interesting, I believe it is the Arabic word (متطلب) which means Requirement, or possibly Farsi مطلب which means Subject or Question. https://translate.google.com/#ar/en/%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%84... https://translate.google.com/#fa/en/%D9%85%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8
Conversationally it's used more like Meaning. https://translate.google.com/#hi/en/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4...
Re: How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
More interesting, I believe it is the Arabic word (متطلب) which means Requirement, or possibly Farsi مطلب which means Subject or Question. https://translate.google.com/#ar/en/%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%84... https://translate.google.com/#fa/en/%D9%85%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A8
Conversationally it's used more like Meaning. https://translate.google.com/#hi/en/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4...
In Farsi, it is used similarly, as in Subject Matter/Topic.