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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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Issues in the efficient use of surface and groundwater in irrigation
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O'Mara, Gerald
The efficient use of water resources where both ground and surface water are used may require special policies to rationalize the interaction among pumping by farmers, canal diversions by irrigation system managers, and the physical response of the stream aquifer system. Significant gains in output are possible from more efficient conjunctive use. [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 93p.
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Reforming the urban water system in Santiago, Chile
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Shirley, Mary M.
In the late 1980s, Chile planned to privatize Santiago's sanitary works enterprise (EMOS) but instead reformed it under public ownership. It did so through a regulatory framework that mimicked the design of a concession with a private utility, setting tariffs that ensured at least a seven percent return on assets, creating a neutral regulator indep [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 71p., Ref.
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Pakistan's Agriculture Sector. Is 3 to 4 Percent Annual Growth Sustainable?
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Faruqee, Rashid
A key source of the impressive growth in Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the agriculture sector, which grew about 3.6 percent a year for 25 years. The author analyzes whether such a growth rate is sustainable. In different periods, growth has come from different sources: from a seed, fertilizer, and irrigation packages in the 1960' [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 35p.
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The World Bank and Irrigation
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Jones, William I.
This document follows a review written by the Operations Evaluation Department staff and consultants. It examines more than four decades of World Bank irrigation experience, especially the Bank's irrigation lending, which has accounted for seven percent of all lending. The study focuses on 208 Bank-funded irrigation projects that have been evaluate [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 150p.
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The Nigerian economy: response of agriculture to adjustment policies
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Kwanashie, Mike
This study estimated price and non-price supply response coefficients for nine individual crops, sub-sectoral aggregates and commodity exports using the two-stage least squares (TSLS) and seemingly unrelated regression method (SURM) as tools for evaluating the effects of sub-sectoral aggregates on Nigerian agriculture. The estimates confirm two res [...]
AERC; 1998 - 50p.
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Coorporative Game T heorie and its Application to natural, Environmental and Water Resource Issues: 3 Application to Water Resource
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Parrachino, Irene
This paper reviews various applications of cooperative game theory (CGT) to issues of water resources. With an increase in the competition over various water resources, the incidents of disputes have been in the center of allocation agreements. The paper reviews the cases of various water uses, such as multi-objective water projects, irrigation, gr [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 46p. réf
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe: Urban and Rural Areas
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Ersado, Lire
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in 1990-91 and 1995-96, which straddled a period of economi [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 26p; 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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Trade reform, efficiency, and growth
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Ghani, Ejaz
The main objective of trade reform is to make markets more competitive and, by introducing competition among previously protected domestic firms, to change the behavior and performance of firms. Efficiency gains are achieved through increased productivity - more efficient use of resources - and a shift in resources from inefficient to efficient sec [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 17p.
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Pricing behavior in Philippine Corn Markets: implications for Market Efficiency
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MENDOZA, Meyra Sebello/ROSEGRANT, Mark W.
International Food Policy Research Institute; 1995 - 84p.
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Toward a financially sustainable irrigation system: lessons from the State of Victoria, Australia, 1984-1994
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Langford, K. John
Significant reform took place in the Victorian irrigation industry in the decade 1984 to 1994. This reform has positioned irrigated agriculture to take advantage of emerging international markets while maintaining and enhancing the natural resource base on which irrigation depends. The overall strategy was to improve the profitability of irrigation [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 95p.
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Farmer participation in irrigation: 20 years of experience and lessons for the future
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
This article examines trends in the understandingof and policies toward farmer participation in irrigationmanagement over the past 20 years, with special attention toexperiences with induced participation and management transferprograms in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Senegal,Columbia Basin USA, and Mexico. Key lessons relate to the valueo [...]
IFPRI; 1997 - pp.103-118
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Feedback links between Economy wide and farm-level Policies with Application to Irrigation Water Management in Morocco
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Roe, Terry
The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework. The approach is demonstrated, using the case of Morocco, by analyzing selected policy (top-down and bottom-up) interventions and extern [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 35p; Ref.
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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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Small-Scale irrigation dams, agricultural production, and health theory and evidence from Ethiopia
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Ersado, Lire
The author looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopias dependence on rainfed agriculture and the associated food insecurity. He develops a theoretical framework to assess the welfare implications of irrigation development programs and provides empirical evidence from microdam construction [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 35p;
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Irrigation development and environmental degradation in developing countries : a dynamic model of investment decisions and policy options
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Babu, Suresh Chandra
In the wake of increased environmental and sustainability concerns associated with agricultural development, developing countries are faced with the dilemma of choice between the short-run technological gains and the long-run environmental conservation. A dynamic investment decision model is developed to optimize the use of scarce public investment [...]
IFPRI; 1996 - pp.129-146
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The use of "asset swaps" by institutional investors in South Africa
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Dimitri Vittas
Leading financial economists have proposed the use of international asset swaps (Merton 1990, Bodie and Merton 2002) as a way of efficiently achieving international diversification without eroding the level of foreign exchange reserves and weakening local market development. International asset swaps entail limited foreign currency flows (only net [...]
The World Bank; 2003 - 34p; Ref.
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Report on crop research in Lesotho 1965-1968
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Ministry of Agriculture Cooperatives & Marketing
; 1968 - 93 p.
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Corporate diversification in East Asia: the role of ultimate ownership and group affiliation
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Claessens, Stijn
Using data for more than 2,000 companies from nine East Asian economies, the authors examine the interactions between ultimate ownership, group affiliation, and corporate diversification. They find evidence that allocation resources within business groups is associated with higher market valuation when external markets are less developed. They also [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 30p.
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