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Management of water resources: bulk water pricing in Brazil
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Asad, Muisa
This document compares analytical work done on Brazil with the experience of bulk water pricing in other countries to arrive at practical recommendations for determining fair bulk water pricing in Brazil. Adequate pricing of bulk water is critical to ensure efficient allocation of water, and to properly fund the maintenance and operation costs invo [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 116p.
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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management
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Johnsson, Rosa Maria Formiga
The authors describe and analyze water resources reform and decentralization of river basin management in the state of Ceara, Northeast Brazil, the poorest part of the country. The Jaguaribe river basin is located entirely within the state of Ceara. With a drainage area of 72,560 square kilometers, it covers almost half of the state's territory [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 42p; Ref.;
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Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples
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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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Decentralizing water resource management: Economic incentives, accountability and assurance
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Easter, K. William
Private sector involvement and user participation in water resource management are not new, say the authors. They give examples that demonstrate how willing users and the private sector are able to improve water use and play a larger role in water resources management. User participation and private sector involvement, if properly structured, can p [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 27p.
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Water allocation and water markets: an analysis of gains from trade in Chile
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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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Modern water control in Irrigation: Concepts, Issues and Applications
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Plusquellec, Herve
This paper is a contribution to the debate on how to transfer modern irrigation concepts and technology to developing countries. In modern schemes, irrigation is provided as a service to users that should be as efficient and convenient as possible. The authors argue that modern irrigation design is a thought process that starts with the definition [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 98p.
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The effect of piped water on early chilhood mortality in urban Brazil, 1970-1976
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Merrick, Thomas
This paper utilizes data on the ratio of surviving children and other variables for a sub-sample of mothers aged 20-29 to analyze the impact of increased access to piped water in urban households on trends and income class differentials in child mortality. Path analytic regression techniques are used to test a recursive model linking the supply and [...]
World Bank; 1983 - 46p.
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Institutional frameworks in successful water markets: Brazil, Spain and Colorado, USA
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Marino, Manuel
For the use of water markets to introduce improved water resources management, the existence of adequate institutional arrangements, is one of the key elements of success. The papers compiled in this report, describe, and analyze three cases from different settings, and, point out similarities, and differences, showing that various options exist fo [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 43p.
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Are incentives everything?: payment mechanisms for health care providers in developing countries
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Gauri, Varun
This paper assesses the extent to which provider payment mechanisms can help developing countries address their leading health care problems. It first identifies four key problems in the health care systems in developing countries: 1) public facilities, which provide the bulk of secondary and tertiary health care services in most countries, offer s [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 20p., Ref
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User charges for education: The ability and willingness to pay in Malawi
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Tan, Jee-Peng
Investment in education is generally recognized as essential for a country's long term economic and social development. However, present macroeconomic conditions have limited allocation of public resources for education. Policymakers are seeking alternative sources of finance, one of which is the tapping of private household resources via user char [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 101p.
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Satisfying urban thirst: water supply augmenttion and pricing policy in Hydreabad city, India
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Saleth, R. Maria
This paper investigates the kind of policy changes and institutional conditions necessary to ensure the economic viability of market-based solution to inter-sectoral allocation problems in an urban context. This is done by (a) evaluating the economics of various supply augmentation options - both internal and external as well as structured and unst [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 39p., Ref.
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Measuring Economic Benefits for water Investments and Policies
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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 challenge and institutional response (a cross-country perspective)
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Saleth, R. Maria
This cross-country evaluation of institutional responses to problems in the water sector shows that changes in the nature of water problems have changed the development paradigm underlying water institutions. There is increasing recognition of how decentralized allocation mechanisms can influence economic forces and stakeholders in water sector dec [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 51p., Ref.
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Efficiency and Equity Consideration in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water
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Tsur, Yacov
May 1995 Pricing of water may affect allocation considerations by users. Efficiency is attainable whenever the pricing method affects the demand for irrigation water. The extent to which water pricing methods can affect income redistribution is limited [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 40p., tableaux, bibliogr.
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Reducing regulatory barriers to private-sector participation in Latin America's water and sanitation services
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Richard, Barbara
The lack of an appropriate regulatory environment is a principal factor behind inadequate water and sanitation services in many parts of Latin America. Many governments recognize the need to improve cost recovery and accountability in services - and increasingly see private sector participation as a tool for improving efficiency and attracting comm [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 19p.
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The public finance of infrastructure: Issues and options
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Swaroop, Vinaya
Using economic principles, the author provides criteria for financing infrastructure services where consumption-related user charges can be levied effectively. In light of the suggested criteria, the author examines the experience of developing countries in financing publicly provided infrastructure services in transport (road), water, telecommunic [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 27p.
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Designing Water Institutions: market failures and institutional response
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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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Water markets in the Americas
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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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A policy framework for irrigation water charges
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Duane, Paul
The Bank's policy has been to require a recovery of at least the public sector's operation and maintenance (O & M) costs, and up to 100 percent of all direct public costs of any irrigation project, with revenues and costs in future years suitably discounted and adjusted for general inflation and with costs measured at domestic market prices. In [...]
World Bank; 1975 - 28p., Annex.
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Water policy for efficient agricultural diversification: market-based approaches
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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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