improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

economic efficiency (EE), technical efficiency (TE) and allocative efficiency (AE) for the sample were 11.6%, 83.0% and 13 … only determined by technological innovations, but also by the efficiency with which available technologies are used in the … there is much room for improving the efficiency of natural resource management in general. The results based on frontier …

.--------------------------------------------------------Countries have reconsidered various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency as a consequence of increasing economic pressures on …

.--------------------------------------------------------Countrie s have reconsidered various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency as a consequence of increasing economic pressures …

set at a higher level than efficiency. As a consequence, farmers may decide to reduce their use of the public irrigation …

efficiency prices are generally higher than the inefficient, status quo prices, efficiency pricing may be politically infeasible … unless the latter prevents over 10% loss of recharge. In addition, watershed conservation is more valuable at efficiency …