On irrigation water pricing in India

Prasad, Kamta; Rao, P. K.

doi:10.1080/07900629108722523

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“…However, water charges in India remain so low that they often do not even cover the operation and maintenance costs of the canal system [Jones 1995]. 6 In fact, Prasad and Rao [1991] show that tax collection costs often exceed the amount collected. The inability or unwillingness to 6.…”

Section: Iib Benefits and Costs Of Irrigation Damsmentioning

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Dams

Duflo

Pande

2007

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large irrigation dams in India. Our instrumental variable estimates exploit the fact that river gradient affects a district's suitability for dams. In districts located downstream from a dam, agricultural production increases, and vulnerability to rainfall shocks declines. In contrast, agricultural production shows an insignificant increase in the district where the dam is located but its volatility increases. Rural poverty declines in downstream districts but increases in the district where the dam is built, suggesting that neither markets nor state institutions have alleviated the adverse distributional impacts of dam construction. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Section: Iib Benefits and Costs Of Irrigation Damsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dams

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Pande

2007

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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322

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“…Many concepts of water pricing were developed in the past, such as cost pricing, benefi t pricing, and opportunity costs (Doppler 1977 ;Prasad and Rao 1991 ;Sampath 1992 ). However, pricing is often determined by the amount needed to recover at least the cost of maintenance and operation of an irrigation project.…”

Section: Introduction (Including Success and Failure Of Past Pricing mentioning

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Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations

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Albiac-Murillo³

2015

Global Issues in Water Policy

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“…In Bihar, collection costs are said to sometimes exceed the income derived, being estimated at between 52% and 117% of the amount collected (Prasad and Rao, 1991). For Bhatia (1991), collection keeps '5,000 persons busy and unproductive in the fields'.…”

Section: Rates Of Recoverymentioning

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“…Vietnam); in Iran, regulated surface water charges are limited to 1-3% of the gross value of crop output (Keshavarz et al, 2005); in Cyprus, the charge is limited to no more than 40% of the weighted average unit cost (65% in exceptional cases) (Tsiourtis, 2002); in India, a 1972 policy review recommended that water rates should lie within the range of 5-12% of gross farm revenue (Prasad and Rao, 1991;Vaidyanathan, 1992). Elsewhere, minimum values are sometimes (ineffectively) decreed as in Korea (Sarker and Itoh, 2001) and Peru (Vos, 2002).…”

Section: The Burden Of Irrigation Chargesmentioning

confidence: 99%