World Bank warns lack of sanitation leads to significant economic losses

摘要

The World Bank has warned that economic losses from lack of access to sanitation amount to an estimated $260 billion annually, more than Chile's entire GDP. The announcement was timed to coincide with a World Bank-IMF spring meetings side event on investing in sanitation, and followed a call by deputy UN secretary-general Jan Eliasson to end open defecation by 2025. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim said: 'We have to fix sanitation if we want to end extreme poverty by 2030 and boost the incomes of the poorest 40%.