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Author White, Howard

Title An Impact Evaluation of India's Second and Third Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Projects : a Case of Poverty Reduction with Low Economic Returns
Published Washington : World Bank, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages)
Series Independent Evaluation Group Studies
Independent evaluation studies.
Contents Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Executive Summary; 1 Introduction; Box 1.1 Irrigation: The Basics; Table 1.1 Bank-Supported Irrigation Projects in Andhra Pradesh; Box 1.2 Some Local Terminology; Box 1.3 The IEG Survey; 2 The Projects; Figure 2.1 Irrigated Area in SRSP; Figure 2.2 Irrigation Sources, 2005 and 2006; 3 Water User Associations; Figure 3.1 Households Accessing Canal and Tank Irrigation Systems Most Likely to Be in a WUA; Figure 3.2 Likelihood of WUA Membership Increases Sharply with Wealth; Figure 3.3 Large Landowners Most Likely to Be WUA Members
Marginal Farmers also ActiveFigure 3.4 Lorenz Curve for Land Ownership by Irrigation Source; Box 3.1 Diversion of Water to Tanks Limits the Number of Beneficiaries; Table 3.1 Participation in WUA Activities, 2006; Figure 3.5 Larger Landholders More Likely to Think Water Is Fairly Distributed, as Are WUA Members; 4 Economic Benefits; Figure 4.1 Irrigation Increases Yields ... But by Less than Assumed at Appraisal; Figure
Summary The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank has undertaken impact evaluations of the Bank?s support to irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India (under AP Irrigation II and III), and of the U.K. Department for International Development supported Rural Livelihoods Project (RLP). This is one of a series of IEG impact evaluations (see appendix H). IEG?s program of impact evaluation is in part carried out under a Department for International Development?IEG partnership agreement; hence the focus on RLP. However, survey villages are also covered by the Bank supported DPIP project, so that the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130)
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Subject Irrigation -- Economic aspects -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
Irrigation projects -- Economic aspects -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
Poverty -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
Irrigation -- Economic aspects
Irrigation projects -- Economic aspects
Poverty
India -- Andhra Pradesh
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821375433
0821375431
0821375423
9780821375426
6611787461
9786611787462
1281787469
9781281787460