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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 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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Best practices for drought preparedness and mitigation and water management for increased food security in North Africa
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ECA; 2001 - 47p.
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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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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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The legal framework for water users' associations : a comparative study
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Salman, Salman M.A.
This paper is a comparative study of the legal framework for water users' associations (WUAs) in six countries -Colombia, India, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines, and Turkey. The study postulates that, since water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource and irrigation is the single largest user of water, every effort should be made to achieve eff [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 100p.
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Famine in Ethiopia: policy implications of coping failure at national and household levels
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Webb, Patrick
IFPRI; 1992 - 167p., Bibliogr.
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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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User organizations for sustainable water services
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Subramanian, Ashok
This paper addresses the basic question: under what conditions are user organizations most effective in managing water systems? The first part examines the conditions under which sustainable water user associations (WUAs) can be fostered in the irrigation sector. The second part deals with water and sanitation users' associations (WASAs) in the dom [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 162p.
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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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Rural demand for drought insurance
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Gautam, Madhur
Many agricultural regions in the developing world are subject to severe droughts, which can have devastating effects on household incomes and consumption, especially for the poor. To protect consumption, rural households engage in many different risk management strategies - some mainly risk-reducing and some simply coping devices to protect consump [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 44p.
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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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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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Visible Success and Invisible Failure in post-crisis reform in the Republic of Korea : Interplay of the Global Standards ...
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Keun Lee
The reform package in post-crisis Korea was one of the most comprehensively designed and decisively implemented. Though impressed by the quick recovery, many are now raising doubts about real changes in the economy, as the result of a cost-benefits analysis: While the business climate is more stable and supportive, the economy is suffering from wea [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 49p; Ref.
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New evaluation procedures for a new generation of water-related projects
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Cummings, Ronald
The change from a construction to a management approach to solving a country's water problems alters the basic nature of assistance required by the water manager. This effect is described here as a new generation of water-related projects, a type that the Bank is increasingly asked to consider. These projects aim to enhance a country's capacity to [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 48p.
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Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction
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Klein, Michael
Foreign direct investment is a key ingredient of successful economic growth and development in developing countries--partly because the very essence of economic development is the rapid and efficient transfer and cross-border adoption of "best practices." Foreign direct investment is especially well suited to effecting this transfer and translating [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 41p.
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Fiscal aspects of evolving federations issues for policy and research
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Wildasin, David E.
Recent experience with fiscal decentralization in many developing and transition economies has led many observers to question whether fiscal decentralization undermines macroeconomic stability. In several countries, transfers from central to lower-level governments have increased fiscal deficits at the central level, creating pressures on central b [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 29p., 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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Improving water resource management in Bangladesh
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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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Earth observation for drought risk financing in pastoral systems of sub-Saharan Africa
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Fava, Francesco
As climate-related crises increase globally, climate risk financing is becoming an integral part of financial protection and resilience building strategies of African countries. Drought- induced crises result in devastating human impacts and high costs for vulnerable countries, threatening longer-term investments and development efforts. While eart [...]
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