Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance.
Review
"Leslie Small and Ian Carruthers have written a lucid, policy-oriented book about this challenge and options for meeting it. Drawing on strong familiarity with a wide range of cases and making a significant effort to apply basic neoclassical economic insights in an understandable matter, the book identifies and reviews many of the key issues....this is a clearly written and exceptionally well-grounded book. It addresses an important policy issue in comtemporary international agricultural development policy." Bruce Koppel, Rural Sociology
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-228) and index.
Table of Contents
Irrigation financing in perspective; Key economic concepts; Conceptual framework; Cost-effective O&M; Water-use efficiency; Improving investment decisions; Resource mobilisation efficiency; Equity; Establishing financial autonomy; Setting irrigation fees; Collecting irrigation fees; Political economy of irrigation financing; Conclusions and recommendations.