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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Good Practices for Estimating Reliable Willingness-to-pay Values in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9290929588
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been continuously undertaking measures to enhance the effectiveness of its operations. To improve projects both at the preparation and implementation stages, ADB issued the Guidelines for Economic Analysis of Projects in 1997 as a means to enhancing project quality at entry. The conduct of proper economic analysis helps ensure the efficient use of development funds and public resources and thereby increase aid effectiveness. This practical guide is a supplement to the Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects. It provides an overview of recent methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis as well as suggested improvements in the economic analysis of projects in selected sectors through case studies. These case studies illustrate the application of suggested methodologies, taking into account sector-specific needs, as well as difficulties faced by practitioners in terms of data and time constraints during project processing. It also aims to contribute to ADB’s capacity building initiatives as this will be the main reference material for conduct of economic analysis.
Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782549668
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Water Economics written by Ariel Dinar and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water scarcity, whether in the quality or quantity dimension, afflicts most countries. Decisions on water management and allocation over time, space, and among uses and users involve economic considerations. This Handbook assembles research that represents recent thinking and applications in water economics. The book chapters are written by leading scholars in the field who address issues related to its use, management, and value. The topics cover analytical methods, sectoral and intersectoral water issues, and issues associated with different sources of water.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292577646
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project economic analysis is a tool used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ensure that ADB operations comply with its Charter. The guidelines in this publication are a revised version of the 1997 edition. The revision responds to the changing development context and ADB operational priorities, and aims to address the recommendations of the ADB Quality-at-Entry Assessments for more methodological work on project economic analysis. The revised guidelines provide general principles for the conduct of project economic analysis, and should be read together with handbooks, technical reports, and other reference materials published by ADB dealing with sector-specific project economic analysis in detail.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9290929502
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Investing in Resilience written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity, and investment instruments and mechanisms to ensure that disaster risk is properly assessed, disaster risk is reduced, and residual risk is well managed. Yet, real progress in strengthening resilience has been slow to date and natural hazards continue to cause significant loss of life, damage, and disruption in the region, undermining inclusive, sustainable development. Investing in Resilience offers an approach and ideas for reflection on how to achieve disaster resilience. It does not prescribe specific courses of action but rather establishes a vision of a resilient future. It stresses the interconnectedness and complementarity of possible actions to achieve disaster resilience across a wide range of development policies, plans, legislation, sectors, and themes. The vision shows how resilience can be accomplished through the coordinated action of governments and their development partners in the private sector, civil society, and the international community. The vision encourages “investors” to identify and prioritize bundles of actions that collectively can realize that vision of resilience, breaking away from the current tendency to pursue disparate and fragmented disaster risk management measures that frequently trip and fall at unforeseen hurdles. Investing in Resilience aims to move the disaster risk reduction debate beyond rhetoric and to help channel commitments into investment, incentives, funding, and practical action
Author : Shiva Raj Adhikari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811005451
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Economics of Urban Externalities written by Shiva Raj Adhikari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities, this book is designed to offer insights into possible sources of negative externalities and the measurement thereof. In economics, the measurement of externalities is a challenging task that demands innovative research designs; however, previous research has failed to capture all of these externalities. The technique described in this book is carefully designed to measure negative externalities, particularly those related to squatter settlements that have been hitherto largely ignored by urbanization literature. The existence of negative externalities and the unintended consequences of rapid urbanization, particularly those related to squatter settlements, can be found in Latin America and Asia. This book provides comparative insights based on extensive primary surveys of households in squatter and non-squatter settlements of Kathmandu, Nepal and Quito, Ecuador. It is considered a case study that will improve the understanding of urbanization issues between Latin America and Asia. Societal benefits can be improved through the reduction of negative externalities. This book helps policy makers in Kathmandu and Quito fine-tune their policies to address the source of urban externality, as well as provide new insights into the nexus between urbanization and development. An investment in the reduction of negative externalities is profitable, thus presenting the government and international partners with a great opportunity. This book contributes to existing literature and will be useful for researchers and students.
Author : A. K. Enamul Haque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139504789
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Environmental Valuation in South Asia written by A. K. Enamul Haque and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about understanding the value of environmental services in South Asia. It provides an overview of different environmental problems in South Asia and examines how economic valuation techniques can be used to assess these problems. It brings together multiple case studies on valuation undertaken by economists and environmental scientists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka under the aegis of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). The book addresses the challenges of valuing environmental changes that are unique to developing countries. Each chapter starts with a description of an environmental problem and the valuation strategy used, followed by a discussion of estimation methods and results. It is designed to serve as a reference book for students, teachers, researchers, non-government organizations and practitioners of environmental valuation. Those interested in development and environmental economics, and natural resource management policies, will also find it useful.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292697870
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Socioeconomic Surveys for Urban Development and Water Projects written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook provides practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys to enhance the effectiveness of urban development and water projects. It explains the importance of high-quality socioeconomic surveys to strengthen project design, ensure robust due diligence, and inform evidence-based policies. Focusing on urban development and water projects, the guidebook discusses common mistakes made with socioeconomic surveys and provides good practices for implementing high quality face-to-face and digital surveys. It includes a standardized set of annotated questionnaires that consist of basic questions as well as expanded questions that enable a more robust understanding of project impacts.
Author : Amanda L. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030924114
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Water, Food and Human Health in the Galapagos, Ecuador written by Amanda L. Thompson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we bring together interdisciplinary scholars and clinicians in medicine, public health, anthropology, nutrition, environmental sciences, and geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the Ministry of Health and the Hospital Oskar Jandl. Together, these authors provide a comprehensive description of the factors shaping water quality, food availability, and health services on the islands, their implications for human health and well-being, and potential avenues for intervention.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292692763
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Contingent Valuation of Nonmarket Benefits in Project Economic Analysis written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment projects are increasingly designed to provide multiple benefits. Some of these benefits are easily quantified through market-valuation methods while others are measured for their nonmarket values. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one of the most widely used techniques to quantify and value benefits from nonmarket goods and services, such as improvement in air and water quality, and protection of ecosystems. This reference book provides a comprehensive guide to CVM. It aims to help improve future CVM studies and estimation of willingness to pay to inform economic analysis at the Asian Development Bank and beyond.
Author : Sonia Chand Sandhu
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292573519
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book GrEEEn Solutions for Livable Cities written by Sonia Chand Sandhu and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a result of a 2-year innovative, exploratory, and reflective study of cities as unique urban spaces that support life, work, and play. It responds to major issues that affect the quality of life of urban residents. This publication offers practical ways on how urban managers, urban practitioners, businesspeople, and citizens can engage to make cities more livable by building on their distinctive physical, social, cultural, and economic characteristics. With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations, the book comes at the right time to offer integrated urban development solutions that can translate global development commitments into urban-level actions to achieve livable cities.
Author : Hari Bansha Dulal
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739179896
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate written by Hari Bansha Dulal and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe. Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discusses the new innovations and funding mechanisms which have emerged in response to the rise of climate-related challenges in the twenty-first century. Dulal and the text's contributors explore the synergies and implications of those innovations with respect to poverty alleviation goals. This collection brings together a range of scholars from different backgrounds, ranging from political science, economics, public policy, and environmental science, all analyzing poverty reduction challenges and opportunities from different, forward-thinking perspectives.
Author : Herath M. Gunatilake
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Utility Tariff Setting for Economic Efficiency and Financial Sustainability written by Herath M. Gunatilake and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the literature on utility tariff setting with an emphasis on economic efficiency and financial sustainability. The paper first discusses the merits as well as practical limitations in applying marginal cost pricing. It then presents details on estimation of revenue requirements of utilities under two regulatory regimes : rate of return regulation; and performance-based regulation. Finally, the paper discusses how to set tariffs when an enabling environment for achieving both financial sustainability and economic efficiency is lacking. Under such circumstances, the paper argues that initial focus should be on cost recovery. As the enabling environment improves, goals of tariff setting can include broader objectives. The success of such a gradual approach depends on : (i) participatory and rigorous analytical work to assess the feasibility of the type of tariff; and (ii) policy and institutional reforms, regulatory enhancements, and performance improvements of the utility to create an enabling environment for implementing advanced types of tariffs.
Author : Peter Choynowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Measuring Willingness to Pay for Electricity written by Peter Choynowski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hyun H. Son
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Explaining Growth and Inequality in Factor Income written by Hyun H. Son and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality of factor income in the Philippines, focusing on the role played by the labor market. A decomposition methodology is proposed, which provides a direct linkage between growth, inequality, and labor market characteristics. The paper provides empirical analysis using both, the Family Income and Expenditure Survey and Labor Force Survey, covering the period 1997-2003.
Author : Craig Sugden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Growth Penalty of High Government Pay Rates written by Craig Sugden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. James
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Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Price Dynamics in the US Market for Apparel Imports written by William E. James and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
