Farmer-Financed Irrigation - The Economics of Reform

Klappentext In this book! Leslie Small and Ian Carruthers examine in detail the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance. Both authors have extensive field experience in irrigation in developing countries and have combined this experience with simple concepts of economics to examine possible institutional and financial reforms that would not simply ask farmers to pay for an inadequate irrigation service! but would create the potential for significant improvements in the quality of the service provided. The proposed elements of any such reform are discussed in depth--a system of user fees covering the recurrent costs of irrigation; a financially autonomous irrigation agency that can retain and use the fees to operate and maintain the irrigation facilities; and a macro policy environment that is not unduly skewed against the agricultural sector. Zusammenfassung This book examines the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Irrigation financing in perspective; Part I. Analysing Financing Policies: Theory and Concepts: 2. Key concepts from economic theory; 3. Evaluating irrigation financing policies: a conceptual framework; Part II. Criteria for Evaluating Irrigation Financing Policies: 4. Cost-effective operation and maintenance; 5. Allocating a scarce resource: water-use efficiency; 6. Improving investment decisions; 7. Resource-mobilisation efficiency; 8. The concern for equity; Part III. Financial Autonomy and User Fees: Key Implementation Issues: 9. Establishing financial autonomy; 10. Setting irrigation fees: reconciling the need for funds with farmer's ability to pay; 11. Collecting irrigation fees: fostering a willingness to pay; 12. The political economy of irrigation financing; 13. Conclusions and recommendations; Notes; Index.

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• Autori: Ian Carruthers, Carruthers Ian, Small Leslie E., Leslie E. Small, Leslie E. (Rutgers University Small, Leslie E. Carruthers Small
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.10.1991
• EAN: 9780521380737
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38073-7
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Wye Studies in Agricultural an; Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Diritto, professione, finanze; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Developing Countries, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Tropical Agriculture, Global South / Developing countries, Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques