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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options is examined using discrete choice models....
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Public Goods Access and Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India: Evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Village Census Data
Deolalikar, Anil B.; Hasan, Rana; Somanathan, Rohini - 2009
We use village level data from the 1991 and 2001 Indian Censuses to examine how the availability of health facilities and safe drinking water at the village level affect juvenile sex ratios. In addition to controlling for village fixed effects in our estimating equation of the juvenile sex...
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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases
Jha, Nitish - 2010
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling...
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The impact on child health from access to water and sanitation and other socioeconomic factors
Khanna, Gauri - 2008
In this paper we examine the impacts on child health, using diarrhoea as the health outcome, (amongst children living in households) with access to different types of water and sanitation facilities, and from socio-economic and child specific factors. Using cross-sectional health survey data for...
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A stochastic multiple players multi-issues bargaining model for the Piave river basin
Sgobbi, Alessandra; Carraro, Carlo - 2007
The objective of this paper is to investigate the usefulness of non-cooperative bargaining theory for the analysis of negotiations on water allocation and management. We explore the impacts of different economic incentives, a stochastic environment and varying individual preferences on players'...
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Local Government Control and Efficiency of the Water Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Water Suppliers in East Germany
Haug, Peter - 2007
The paper deals with the effects of local governments' interference with business affairs of publicly owned utilities. A partial model is presented to illustrate the consequences of "democratic control" for the public managers' effort and the efficiency of local public production. To check the...
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Science-policy communication for improved water resources management: Contributions of the Nostrum-DSS project
Depietri, Yaella; Giupponi, Carlo - 2008
The Nostrum-DSS EU funded Co-ordination Action (CA) aims at contributing to the achievement of improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management within the Mediterranean Basin by establishing a network between the science, policy, and civil society spheres and through...
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Preferences for domestic water services in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
Kloos, Julia; Tsegai, Daniel W. - 2009
In dieser Studie werden Präferenzen für die Wasserversorgung und damit verbundener Dienstleistungen im … gegenüber einer Einführung von Preisen für die Wasserversorgung und ihrer Zufriedenheit mit der gegenwärtigen Wasserversorgung … unterscheiden. Die Zahlungsbereitschaft für die Änderungen einzelner Bereiche der Dienstleistungen zur Wasserversorgung wurde …
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Economic analysis of water supply cost structure in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
Tsegai, Daniel W.; Linz, Teresa; Kloos, Julia - 2009
Wasserversorgung sowie Skaleneffekte geschätzt. Der Vergleich von Wassertarifen und Grenzkosten zeigt, dass die geschätzten Grenzkosten … nicht genügend Gebühren verlangen, um die Kosten für die Wasserversorgung zu decken. Demnach würde eine Preiseinstufung … verwalteten WSAs auf Bezirksebene eine wichtige politische Option, um die Effizienz der Wasserversorgung im Mittleren Olifants in …
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