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Book Synopsis Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water written by Yacov Tsur and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water by : Ariel Dinar
Download or read book Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water written by Ariel Dinar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pricing of water may affect allocation considerations by users. Efficiency is attainable whenever the pricing method affects the demand for irrigation water. The extent to which water pricing methods can affect income redistribution is limited. To affect income inequality, a water pricing method must include certain forms of water quantity restrictions.Economic efficiency has to do with how much wealth a given resource base can generate. Equity has to do with how that wealth is to be distributed in society. Economic efficiency gets far more attention, in part because equity considerations involve value judgments that vary from person to person.Tsur and Dinar examine both the efficiency and the equity of different methods of pricing irrigation water. After describing water pricing practices in a number of countries, they evaluate their efficiency and equity.In general they find that water use is most efficient when pricing affects the demand for water. The volumetric, output, input, tiered, and two-part tariff schemes all satisfy this condition and can be efficient, although whether efficiency is short-run or long-run, first- or second-best, varies.Pricing schemes that do not directly influence water input - per-unit area fees, for example - lead to inefficient allocation. But they are usually easier to implement and administer and require less information.The extent to which water pricing methods can effect income redistribution is limited, the authors conclude. Disparities in farm income are mainly the result of factors such as farm size and location and soil quality, but not water (or other input) prices. Pricing schemes that do not involve quantity quotas cannot be used in policies aimed at affecting income inequality.The results somewhat support the view that water prices should not be used to effect income redistribution because water prices are a poor vehicle for reducing income inequality. But pricing schemes that involve water quota rules can reduce income inequality. The authors demonstrate this with a two-rate tiered pricing scheme combined with equal quotas of the cheaper water.This paper - a product of the Agricultural Policies Division, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to implement the World Bank water resources management policy.
Book Synopsis EFFICIENCY ABD EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS IN PRICING AND ALLOCATING IRRIGATION WATER by : Yacov TSUR
Download or read book EFFICIENCY ABD EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS IN PRICING AND ALLOCATING IRRIGATION WATER written by Yacov TSUR and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Efficiency and equity considerations in pricing and allocation irrigation water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Efficiency and equity considerations in pricing and allocation irrigation water written by Yacov Tsur and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economics of Irrigation Water Management by :
Download or read book Economics of Irrigation Water Management written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pricing Irrigation Water by : Robert Johansson
Download or read book Pricing Irrigation Water written by Robert Johansson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting prices right and allocating water efficiently will become increasingly important as demand for food and water increases and as water scarcity becomes more of a problem. Pricing water efficiently will help meet the increasing demand, but what is the best way to make pricing more efficient?As water scarcity and population pressures increase, more countries are adopting water pricing mechanisms as their primary means of regulating the consumption of irrigation water.The way to allocate water efficiently is to get the prices right, but how to accomplish this is open to debate. Water pricing methods are sensitive to the social, physical, institutional, and political setting. To assess the costs and benefits of a particular irrigation project, the pricing method must be tailored to local circumstances.Johansson's survey of the resource economics literature on irrigation services and pricing will be useful for developing comprehensive guidelines for water policy practitioners. He synthesizes accumulated knowledge about the implementation and performance of various water pricing methods used over the past two decades: volumetric pricing (marginal cost pricing), output and input pricing, per area pricing, tiered pricing, two-part tariffs, and water markets.Theoretical and practical issues will become increasingly important as demand for food and water increases. Pricing water efficiently will help meet that demand, but what is the best way to make pricing more efficient? Many argue that water markets offer a solution, but under what circumstances are water markets viable? What effect will decentralization have on farm production and the rest of the economy? What forces are moving toward decentralization or (re)centralization?The answers to these questions are complex and often site-specific. To help compare them, Johansson lists case studies, data sources, and relevant methodologies in the appendixes.This paper - a product of the Rural Development Department - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to improve the efficiency of water use. The study was funded by Rural Development, Development Research Group, and the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Guidelines for Pricing Irrigation Water Based on Efficiency, Implementation, and Equity Concerns.
Book Synopsis Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water written by Yacov Tsur and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Allocative Efficiency and Equity in Charging for Irrigation Water by : Richard Lee Bowen
Download or read book Allocative Efficiency and Equity in Charging for Irrigation Water written by Richard Lee Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social, Economic, And Institutional Issues In Third World Irrigation Management by : R. K. Sampath
Download or read book Social, Economic, And Institutional Issues In Third World Irrigation Management written by R. K. Sampath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, number 15 in the Studies in Water Policy and Management Series and joins two other volumes (8 and 10) that collectively summarize a significant part of the post-World War II experience of Western experts and donors with the development and management of irrigation in Third World countries. The evolution of understanding of Third World irrigation issues has been toward a greater appreciation of the potential for augmenting traditional production and water allocation systems with improved institutional arrangements for achieving allocative efficiency and equity. The need for local inputs for planning, system operation, and system maintenance is now widely recognized, as is the need for providing proper motivation for system administrators. The authors of this volume offer improved conceptual frameworks and analytic techniques applied to specific country and regional problems in hopes of edifying future experts and donors.
Book Synopsis Interactions Between Water Resources Rights and Their Prices Mechanisms by : Farhad Khorrami
Download or read book Interactions Between Water Resources Rights and Their Prices Mechanisms written by Farhad Khorrami and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research article is to discuss the interactions between water rights and pricing system of water resources. The issue is of utmost importance because all researches show the shortage of drinking and usable water could lead to major conflicts among nations in the 21th century,especially among the Asian countries and in particular the Middle Eastern nations. Evidence is even indicative of unfair water resources distribution worldwide.Therefore, both on efficiency and equity grounds water resources of the world are facing major mismanagement crisis. Thus, a much more serious consideration is needed to be given to the implications of the interactions between water rights and its pricing for a Pareto efficiency and equitable management of water resources in the Asian countries in general and in the Middle Eastern nations in particular. The subsections of the article around the issue of quot;water allocation systemsquot;are: objectives of different systems of water rights, desirable characteristics of a system of water allocation, empirical studies of the institutions of water allocation, and institutions for allocating irrigation water. The subsections around the 2nd issue of the quot;determination of charges for water usequot; are: rate determination, cost apportioning and repayment, and cost assignment.
Book Synopsis The Human Right to Water by : Malcolm Langford
Download or read book The Human Right to Water written by Malcolm Langford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.
Book Synopsis Pricing Irrigation Water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Pricing Irrigation Water written by Yacov Tsur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets. Water policy at the national and regional levels will need to accommodate these forces or water is likely to become undervalued. The inefficient use of this resource will lessen a country's comparative advantage in world markets and slow its transition to higher incomes, particularly in rural households. While professionals widely agree on what constitutes sound water resource management, they have not yet reached a consensus on the best ways of implementing policies. Policymakers have considered pricing water - a debated intervention - in many variations. Setting the price 'right,' some say, may guide different types of users in efficient water use by sending a signal about the value of this resource. Aside from efficiency, itself an important policy objective, equity, accessibility, and implementation costs associated with the right pricing must be considered. Focusing on the examples of China, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, and Turkey, Pricing Irrigation Water provides a clear methodology for studying farm-level demand for irrigation water. This book is the first to link the macroeconomics of policies affecting trade to the microeconomics of water demand for irrigation and, in the case of Morocco, to link these forces to the creation of a water user-rights market. This type of market reform, the contributors argue, will result in growing economic benefits to both rural and urban households.
Book Synopsis Pricing Irrigation Water by : Robert C. Johansson
Download or read book Pricing Irrigation Water written by Robert C. Johansson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting prices right and allocating water efficiently will become increasingly important as demand for food and water increases and as water scarcity becomes more of a problem. Pricing water efficiently will help meet the increasing demand, but what is the best way to make pricing more efficient?
Book Synopsis Economic Efficiency in the Allocation of Irrigation Water Over Time by : Vernon R. Eidman
Download or read book Economic Efficiency in the Allocation of Irrigation Water Over Time written by Vernon R. Eidman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pricing for Irrigation Water by : J. A. Seagraves
Download or read book Pricing for Irrigation Water written by J. A. Seagraves and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: This report outlines important factors affecting the choice of pricing systems for irrigation water. First we review the goals of pricing and regulatory schemes and then analyze other factors affecting choices. Marginal cost pricing is explained and identified with a way of thinking about administered prices rather than a rigid system. Finally, alternative pricing schemes are illustrated and some conclusions are offered.
Book Synopsis Pricing Irrigation Water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Pricing Irrigation Water written by Yacov Tsur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets. Water policy at the national and regional levels will need to accommodate these forces or water is likely to become undervalued. The inefficient use of this resource will lessen a country's comparative advantage in world markets and slow its transition to higher incomes, particularly in rural households. While professionals widely agree on what constitutes sound water resource management, they have not yet reached a consensus on the best ways of implementing policies. Policymakers have considered pricing water - a debated intervention - in many variations. Setting the price 'right,' some say, may guide different types of users in efficient water use by sending a signal about the value of this resource. Aside from efficiency, itself an important policy objective, equity, accessibility, and implementation costs associated with the right pricing must be considered. Focusing on the examples of China, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, and Turkey, Pricing Irrigation Water provides a clear methodology for studying farm-level demand for irrigation water. This book is the first to link the macroeconomics of policies affecting trade to the microeconomics of water demand for irrigation and, in the case of Morocco, to link these forces to the creation of a water user-rights market. This type of market reform, the contributors argue, will result in growing economic benefits to both rural and urban households.
Book Synopsis Irrigation Water Pricing by : François Molle
Download or read book Irrigation Water Pricing written by François Molle and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 14 separately authored chapters on the pricing of irrigation water. The chapters are entitled: (1) Water pricing in irrigation: the lifetime of an idea; (2) Water pricing in irrigation: mapping the debate in the light of experience; (3) Why is agricultural water demand unresponsive at low price ranges; (4) Get the prices right: a model of water prices and irrigation efficiency in Maharashtra, India; (5) Thailand's free water: rationale for a water charge and policy shifts; (6) Water rights and water fees in rural Tanzania; (7) Who will pay for water? The Vietnamese State's dilemma of decentralization of water management in the Red River Delta; (8) Water pricing in Haryana, India; (9) The energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia: groundwater conservation and power sector viability; (10) Wells and canals in Jordan: can pricing policies regulate irrigation water use; (11) Water pricing in Tadla, Morocco; (12) Water pricing policies and recent reforms in China: the conflict between conservation and other policy goals; (13) Water pricing and irrigation: a review of the European experience; and (14) Policy-driven determinants of irrigation development and environmental sustainability: a case study in Spain.
