| Description |
xvi, 398 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Water challenge : an institutional diagnosis -- 2. Understanding institutions : nature, performance, and change -- 3. Existing literature : approaches, attempts, and limitations -- 4. Evaluating institutional linkages : toward an alternative -- 5. Analytical framework and empirical models -- 6. Empirical context : description and justification -- 7. Institutional changes in the water sector : a cross-country review -- 8. Institution-performance linkages : evidence and evaluation -- 9. Institution-performance linkages : robustness and contextuality -- 10. Institutional sequencing and packaging -- 11. Conclusions with implications for theory and policy -- App. Mathematical analog for impact-transmission channels |
| Summary |
"This book offers an authoritative review of the important linkages between institutions and performance in both general and water sector contexts. By laying the foundations for future research and policy in this field, it will be of particular relevance and value for institutional economists, natural resource and environmental economists, political scientists, policymakers, donor agencies, and students and scholars working on water-related issues."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"A co-publication with the World Bank." |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 366-383 |
| Subject |
Water-supply -- Economic aspects.
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Water-supply -- Political aspects.
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Water resources development -- Economic aspects.
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Water resources development -- Political aspects.
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| Author |
Dinar, Ariel, 1947-
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World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2004048262 |
| ISBN |
1843767775 |
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0821356569 |
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9780821356562 |
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