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Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector

Dinar, Ariel; Balakrishnan, Trichur K.; Wambia, Joseph - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

It is difficult and time-consuming to get adequate information about influence groups in a society. Dinar, Balakrishnan, and Wambia develop an approach to estimating the political risk associated with implementing a set of institutional reforms in the water sector. Their approach endogenizes the...

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Designing direct subsidies for water and sanitation services - Panama : a case study

Foster, Vivien; Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Halpern, Jonathan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

As an alternative to traditional subsidy schemes in utility sectors, direct subsidy programs have several advantages: they are transparent, they are explicit, and they minimize distortions of the behavior of both the utility, and the customers. At the same time, defining practical eligibility...

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Monopoly power and distribution in fragmented markets : the case of groundwater

Jacoby, Hanan G.; Murgai, Rinku; Rehman, Saeed Ur - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Using data from Pakistan's Punjab, the authors examine monopoly power in the market for groundwater - irrigation water extracted using private tubewells - a market characterized by barriers to entry and spatial fragmentation. Simple theory predicts that tubewell owners should price-discriminate...

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Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the outcomes also depend on indirect effects through parental inputs. The authors investigate the role of such inputs in influencing the incidence of child health gains from access...

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How access to urban potable water and sewerage connections affects child mortality

Shi, Anqing - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Using a city-level database of global Urban Indicators, the author finds that: 1) Improved access to urban potable water and sewerage connections is consistently associated with low child mortality. 2) Government involvement in providing water services, especially locally, significantly reduces...

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Achieving accountability through decentralization : lessons for integrated river basin management

Mody, Jyothsna - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

While decentralization holds out the promise of increased flexibility and efficiency, the preconditions for realizing … it are daunting. To draw lessons for productive decentralization in integrated river basin management, this paper surveys … the decentralization experience in education, health care, roads, irrigation, and public infrastructure services. Case …

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Markups, entry regulation, and trade - Does country size matter?

Hoekman, Bernard; Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Actual, and potential competition is a powerful source of discipline on the pricing behavior of firms with market power. The authors develop a simple model that shows that the effects of new entry, and import competition on industry price-cost markups, depend on country size. The authors...

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Subsidies in Chilean public utilities

Serra, Pablo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The author analyzes subsidies in Chile's public utilities. Over the last decade, especially, significant efforts have been made to extend public services to rural populations. An explicit consumption subsidy for potable water (targeted to the poorest twenty percent of the population) currently...

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Universal(ly bad) service - providing infrastructure services to rural and poor urban consumers

Clarke, George R.G.; Wallsten, Scott J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by large, usually state-owned, monopolies. However, encouraged by technological change, regulatory innovation, and pressure from international organizations, many developing countries...

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Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China

Dean, Judith M.; Lovely, Mary E.; Wang, Hua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

One of the most contentious debates today is whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards, turning them into pollution havens. Empirical studies to date show little evidence to support the pollution haven hypothesis,...

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