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Comparing the performance of public and private water companies in Asia and Pacific region: what a stochastic costs frontier shows / Estache, Antonio
Estache and Rossi estimate a stochastic costs frontier for a sample of Asian and Pacific water companies, comparing the performance of public and privatized companies based on detailed firm-specific information published by the Asian Development Bank in 1997. They find private operators of water companies to be more efficient than public operators.. [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 26p., ref.
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Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector / Dinar, Ariel
It is difficult and time-consuming to get adequate information about influence groups in a society. Dinar, Balakrishnan, and Wambia develop an approach to estimating the political risk associated with implementing a set of institutional reforms in the water sector. Their approach endogenizes the actions taken by politicians, users, service provider [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 40p., Ref.
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Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples / Dinar, Ariel
From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria -maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production. Societies have invested capital in infrastructure to maintain this allocation. Yet social change, including changes in (and more u [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 41p., Ref.
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Tradable water rights: A property rights approach to resolving water shortages and promoting investment / Holden, Paul
In most countries, the state owns the water and hydraulic infrastructure, and public officials decide who gets water rights, how the water is to be used, and how much will be charged for its use. The authors of this paper compare administered systems of water allocation with a system of tradable water rights, and argue that water allocation by admi [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 23p.
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Improving water resource management in Bangladesh / Faruqee, Rashid
As populations expand and make various uses of water, its growing scarcity becomes a serious issue in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Water can no longer be considered a totally free resource and plans must be developed for its efficient use through better management and rules that preserve everybody's access to it and interest in its deve [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 42p.
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An approach to the economic analysis of water supply projects / Lovei, Laszlo
Development economists are increasingly concerned about the correct approach to economic analysis of projects. By looking for a compromise between theory (which identifies ideals) and practice (which deals within the bounds of time and resource constraints), Lovei focuses on potential guidelines for economic appraisals of water supply projects. He [...]
World Bank; 1991 - 37p.
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Environment Matters at the world Bank. Good Governance and Environmental Management / Evans, James Warren
Contents include: a letter from our Vice President, Katherine Sierra; director's overview ; tackling governance in the forest sector - current challenges in Russia and the way forward; how much have we advanced - access to information and participation in environmental issues in Chile; seafood certification and sustainability; combating illegal log [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 55p; Ref.
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Water markets in the Americas / Simpson, Larry
This volume summarizes the practice of using water markets to improve the efficiency of water use. The water sector is in a state of transition. In the past, water was regarded as public property, to be developed and operated by government agencies [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 52p., Ref.
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Water resources management / World Bank
Water resources have been one of the most important areas of the Bank's lending during the past three decades. Water is an increasingly scarce resource requiring careful economic and environmental management. As the demand for water increases for human, industrial and irrigated agriculture, new challenges call for new approaches to supplying water [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 140p., Bibliogr.
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The World Bank Annual Report : 1993 / World Bank
This report covers the period July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993. It provides an overview of World Bank activities during this period; provides a global perspective of the world economy; and discusses Bank activities and finances. In addition, the report summarizes projects approved for assistance in fiscal 1993 and provides a regional perspective [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 252p., Index
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An integrated approach to waste water management / Marino, Manuel
The report provides a general approach to deciding the "where, when, and how much" in developing and implementing wastewater management interventions. Its scope covers two main considerations: 1) the need to incorporate the general principles that determine water resources management policies into the design and selection of wastewater management a [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 46p.
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Gender and Agricultural development : surveying the Field / Henderson, Helen Kreider
Agricultural planning and development are crucial to human survival, but they usually proceed without any consideration of the importance of gender issues at the production level. Although women have long been prime movers in agriculture, their contribution to the world's food supply has been largely ignored, and consequently their stake in develop [...]
University of Arizona press; 1995 - 161p.
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The Market for Water Rights in Chile: major issues / Brehm, Monica Rios
Many economists advocate the use of tradable water rights as the most efficient system for allocating scarce water resources among alternative economic uses. According to this view, a private market in tradable water rights would maximize the economic value of the resource; would help to reduce costly public infrastructure investment and would fost [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 31p.
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Designing Water Institutions: market failures and institutional response / Livingston, Marie Leigh
To foster economic efficiency, says the author, rights to water resources must be both secure and flexible. Designing institutions to deal with the physical peculiarities of water in a way that establishes sensible incentives and efficient resource use is complicated. Basically, establishing security in water rights requires protecting water users [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 25p., bibliogr.
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Toward Sustainable Management of Water Resources / Seregeldin, Ismail
The text of this document was drawn from an address by Ismail Serageldin to the Eighth World Congress on Water Resources of the International Water Resources Association in Cairo, Egypt, on November 22, 1994. The author discusses the obvious impact of water as sustanence for both humanity and the planet, as well as the new realization of potable wa [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 33p.
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