Governing the commons? : water and power in Pakistan’s Indus Basin / Hanan G. Jacoby, Ghazala Mansuri
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 8351Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Research Group, Poverty and Inequality Team, February 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 55 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Governing the Commons? Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8351Online resources: Summary: Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly managed by the state. This paper studies water allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political influence of nearly a quarter million irrigators in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin watershed allow the construction of a novel index of lobbying power. Consistent with a model of misgovernance, the decline in water availability and land values from channel head to tail is accentuated along canals having greater lobbying power at the head than at the tailPPN: PPN: 1016351062Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBONo physical items for this record
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