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Water policy for efficient agricultural diversification: market-based approaches / Rosegrant, Mark W.
The rapid liberalization of developing economies encourages agricultural diversi- fication and commercialization. Prevailing water allocation methods have tended to limit the flexibility of farmers in realiocating resources in response to changing incentives. Reform of water allocation mechanisms has lagged behind other input sectors, [...]
IFPRI; 1995 - 21p.
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World food markets into the 21st Century: Environment and resource constraints and policies / Rosegrant, Mark W.
Projections of global food supply and demand to the year 2020 indicate that food production in the aggregate is likely to keep pace with growing populations and incomes, and that real food prices will be stable or slowly declining. This article examines the possible environmental and resource constraints to long-term food production growth and expl [...]
IFPRI; 1997 - pp.401-428
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World Water and Food to 2025: Dealing with Scarcity / Rosegrant, Mark W.
Are we headed toward a worldwide water crisis? The increasing demand for water among households, industry, the environment, and especially agriculture is making global water scarcity a perilous possibility.What will happen to food production and global food security as water becomes increasingly scarce? What steps can we take to avert threats to gl [...]
IFPRI; 2002 - 322p; Ref.
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Irrigation development in Southeast Asia beyond 2000: will the future be like the past? / SVENDSEN, Mark/ROSEGRANT, Mark W.
IFPRI; 1994 - 12p.
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Asian food production in the 1990s: irrigation investment and management policy / Rosegrant, Mark W.
This article addresses the implications of declining productivity growth for rice and wheat in Asia and parallel changes in irrigation investment patterns for future irrigation investment and management policies. The general economic case for increased public investment in new irrigation is examined, the potential for improving existing irrigation [...]
International Food Policy Research Institute; 1993 - pp.13-32
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Small farmers and the landless in South Asia / Singh , Inderjit
The majority of the world's poor are among the 625 million people who reside in the rural areas of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The rural poor consist predominantly of: (i) small owner and tenant cultivators with operational holdings of less than 5 acres (2 hectares); and (ii) the landless. There are approximately 83 million households with a po [...]
World Bank; 1979 - 194p.
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Pricing irrigation water: A literature survey / Johansson, Robert C.
As water scarcity and population pressures increase, more countries are adopting water pricing mechanisms, as their primary means of regulating the consumption of irrigation water. The way to allocate water efficiently is to "get the prices right", but how to accomplish this is open to debate. Water pricing methods are sensitive to the social, phys [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 80p., Ref.
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Education in Asia and the Pacific: Reviews,report and notes / UNESCO
UNESCO; 1992 - 130p.

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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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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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East Asia and Pacific Region, South Asia Region Population projections 1992-93 edition / Bos, Eduard
Population projections for all countries are prepared annually by the Bank's Population and Human Resources Department. They are published first in summary form in the Bank's World Development Report and later in greater detail as technical notes or working papers and, in alternate years, as a book. Separate papers cover the six Bank regions: (1) A [...]
World Bank; 1991 - 151p.
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Financial resources for industrial projects in developing countries. Volume 4: Development finance institutions in Asia and the Pacific; 3e Ed. /
UNIDO; 1983 - 236p.
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The Little Green Data Book / World Bank
The Little Green Data Book represents a succinct collection of information from the World Development Indicators 2002, and its accompanying CD-ROM. The data compiled in this issue corresponds to the period between 1997 and 2000, unless otherwise noted, for the headings of agriculture, forests, biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water an [...]
World Bank; 2002 - 239p
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Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies / Young, Robert.A
This monograph reviews, assesses and describes the operational use of the concepts and methods for estimating economic benefits of investment and allocation decisions involving water. The main focus of the report is on valuation of changes in water supply although attention is also given to measuring benefits of increased reliability of water suppl [...]
World Bank; - 118p.
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Water allocation and water markets: an analysis of gains from trade in Chile / Hearne, Robert R.
This paper is intended to reinforce the World Bank's overall effort to improve the management of natural resources and to highlight the importance of water resources in particular. The paper focuses on water allocation problems and the performance of water markets in improving allocation. By examining specific case studies in Chile, one of the few [...]
The World Bank; 1995 - 75p.
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Agriculture research and productivity growth in India / EVENSON, Robert E./PRAY, Carl E./ROSEGRANT, Mark W.
IFPRI; 1999 - 88p.
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Protection and sustainable use of water /
United Nations; 1995 - 48p.
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The rural energy crisis women's work and basic needs : perspectives and approaches to action / CECELSKI, Elizabeth
ILO; - 84p. , Bibliogr.
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The Limits to Scarcity / MEHTA,Lyla
Earthscan Ltd; 2010 - 270p.
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