PRICING IRRIGATION WATER PRINCIPLES AND CASES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (RFF PRESS) (HB 2004)

YACOV TSUR

ISBN 10: 1891853767 / ISBN 13: 9781891853760

Published by SP TAYLOR & FRANCIS, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PRICING IRRIGATION WATER PRINCIPLES AND CASES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (RFF PRESS) (HB 2004)
• Publisher: SP TAYLOR & FRANCIS
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891853767
• ISBN 13: 9781891853760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New Books

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Ariel Dinar is a lead economist in the agriculture and rural development department of the World Bank.

Rachid Doukkali is a professor of applied economics and the department head of the Department of Social Sciences, Agronomy, and Veterinary Sciences at the Institute Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco.

Terry Roe is a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Yacov Tsur is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Management at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.