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The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies
Komives, Kristin - 2006
Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...
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Domestic Water Pricing with Household Surveys : A Study of Acceptability and Willingness to Pay in Chongqing, China
Wang, Hua - 2016
In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded...
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Is Cost Recovery a Feasible Objective for Water and Electricity? The Latin American Experience
Foster, Vivien - 2016
Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are...
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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
This article examines the effect of water pricing policies on farmers? water saving behaviors, using original water user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the group level, to replace area-based pricing, induces...
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Markets, Contracts, and Uncertainty in a Groundwater Economy
Giné, Xavier - 2018
Groundwater is a vital yet threatened resource in much of South Asia. This paper develops a model of groundwater … transactions under payoff uncertainty arising from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwater availability during the agricultural …-owners in southern India. The findings show that, while the contracting distortion leads to an average welfare loss of less than …
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Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh : Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Shamsudduha, Mohammad - 2019
Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy … makers to identify areas that are vulnerable to public health. This paper develops, for the first time, groundwater risk maps …
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Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in the Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
Commodity traders are often the focus of popular resentment. Food price hikes in 2007-2008 resulted in protests and food riots, and spurred governments to regulate traders. In March 2011, Government of Bangladesh banned delivery order traders in the edible oils market, citing cartelization, and...
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Climate Change, Groundwater Salinization and Road Maintenance Costs in Coastal Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
groundwater salinity. However, data scarcity has prevented systematic analysis for poor countries. This paper assesses the impact … of groundwater salinity on road maintenance expenditures in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The assessment draws on new … groundwater salinity, municipal income, and road network length, large and significant effects are found for salinity. The …
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Housing Consumption and Urbanization
Lozano-Gracia, Nancy - 2017
Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa places immense pressure on urban services to meet the needs of the burgeoning urban population. Although several country- or city-level reports offer insight into the housing challenges of specific places, little is known about regional patterns affecting...
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Infrastructure Gap in South Asia : Infrastructure Needs, Prioritization, and Financing
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
If the South Asia region hopes to meet its development goals and not risk slowing down or even halting growth, poverty alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infrastructure gap a priority. Identifying and addressing gaps in the data on expenditure, access,...
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