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The Effects of Volumetric Pricing Policy on Farmers? Water Management Institutions and Their Water Use : The Case of Water User Organization in an Irrigation System in Hubei, China

Kajisa, Kei - 2017

user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the … exit a WUG for private irrigation. This tendency is associated with an increased probability that the remaining members do … difficulties among the remaining members whose fields are separated by former members who have now opted out for private irrigation …

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Decentralization and Redistribution : Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018

governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …

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Governing the Commons? : Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream … allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political … influence of nearly a quarter million irrigators in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin watershed allow the construction of a novel …

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Distributional Effects of the Panama Canal Expansion

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017

This paper uses a dynamic macro-micro framework to evaluate the potential distributional effects of the expansion of the Panama Canal. The results show that large macroeconomic effects are only likely during the operations phase (2014 and onward), and income gains are likely to be concentrated...

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Why Do so Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors

Joseph, George - 2019

According to the 2015 Tanzania Water Point Mapping data, about 29 percent of all water points are non-functional, out of which 20 percent failed within the first year. This paper analyzes the various factors which impact water point failure and measures the relative contributions of these...

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Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?

Dinar, Shlomi - 2017

Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....

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Blue Water and the Consequences of Alternative Food Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa for Water Security

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

In the Middle East and North Africa, food security and water security are tightly entwined. In particular, choices about the extent to which food security policies rely on trade rather than domestically produced staples have stark consequences for the region's limited water resources. This paper...

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Provision of Water to the Poor in Africa : Experience with Water Standposts and the Informal Water Sector

Keener, Sarah - 2017

Standpipes that dispense water from utilities are the most common alternatives to piped water connections for poor customers in the cities of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fifty-five percent of the unconnected urban population relies on standpipes as their first water source. Other informal water...

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Why are so Many Water Points in Nigeria Non-Functional? : An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors

Andres, Luis Alberto - 2018

This paper utilizes information from the 2015 Nigeria National Water and Sanitation Survey to identify the extent, timing, as well as reasons for the failure of water points. The paper finds that more than 38 percent of all improved water points are nonfunctional. The results indicate that...

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Water Allocation Strategies for the Kat Basin in South Africa : Comparing Negotiation Tools and Game Theory Models

Dinar, Ariel - 2016

Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that...

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