Evidence from Pakistan's Punjab indicates that monopoly power in the market for groundwater (irrigation water extracted …, Murgai, and Rehman examine monopoly power in the market for groundwater - irrigation water extracted using private tubewells … Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Market Development and Allocative Efficiency: Irrigation Water in …

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

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 …

Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed as a means of … and water-savings benefits of small-holder drip irrigation. A group of well-owners was encouraged to adopt drip irrigation … drip group shifted into more remunerative and irrigation reliant crops, enjoyed higher agricultural revenue, and …

Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed as a means of … productivity and water-saving benefits of smallholder drip irrigation. A group of well-owners was encouraged to adopt drip … irrigation through a subsidy scheme, whereas a control group was left to its own devices. The results indicate that, after three …

income effects on early childhood anthropometric outcomes in rural Nepal and to provide evidence on the persistence of these …

Improving road access to agricultural markets in Nepal would confer substantial economic benefits on average, much of … their distributional consequences.The empirical analysis, using data from Nepal, shows large benefits from extending roads …