Evaluating water institutions and water sector performance, by R. Maria Saleth, Ariel Dinar

By R. Maria Saleth, Ariel Dinar

Actual limits to clean water expansion—an rising truth in lots of components of the world—make absolute water shortage inevitable. the lack of the already built water offer to satisfy an ever-growing call for for clean water additionally makes the emergence of relative water shortage unavoidable. Water scarcity—both in its absolute and relative forms—gets accentuated additional via an expanding top class connected to water caliber and ecological sustainability. The water zone has gone through extraordinary alterations lately. whereas prior achievements have been linked almost always with funding in new actual buildings, fresh advancements within the water region are linked to a better quantity with greater administration and institutional adjustments. even if either the character and course of those institutional adjustments differ through country-specific fiscal, political, cultural and source realities, there are essentially identifiable developments and styles. This file indicates a brand new method to make clear the method of institution-performance interplay. It demonstrates using the method via making use of it to an intensive cross-country facts set, and by way of deriving coverage assistance in accordance with the consequences. The authors objective to stimulate concept and debate approximately methodologies and techniques for use with a purpose to review institutional swap and institution-performance interactions within the water region.

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All other queries on rights and licenses should be addressed to the World Bank at the address above or faxed to 202-522-2422. ISSN: 0253-7494 R. Maria Saleth is a reader, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. Ariel Dinar is a principal economist in the World Bank's Rural Development Department.  Maria, 1955- Evaluating water institutions and water sector performance / R. Maria Saleth, Ariel Dinar. p. cm.  ).  Series. 91dc21 99-37395 CIP Page iii Contents Foreword iv Abstract v Acknowledgments vi Executive Summary vii Introduction 1 Analytical Framework 3 Water Sector and Water Institution: Conceptual Basis 3 Water Institution: Analytical Decomposition 4 Water Sector Performance: Analytical Decomposition 6 Water Institution and Water Sector Performance: Analytical Linkages 8 Existing Literature: A Methodological Review 12 Evaluation Methodology 15 Definition of Variables 15 Water Law Variables 15 Water Policy Variables 16 Water Administration Variables 17 Performance Variables 17 Models of Institution-Performance Linkages 19 Empirical Context 21 Executive Perception as an Empirical Basis 21 Sample Selection and Characteristics 22 Perceptional Information: Empirical Validity and Interpretation 24 Is the Perception-based Information Comparable?

In this way, the equations capture the effects of both the endogenous as well as exogenous factors. And, finally, for the empirical estimation of the equations, this study relies on an innovative evaluation methodology based on a cross-country survey of 43 water sector experts having different disciplinary background and professional orientation from 11 countries with diverse water problems, socio-economic settings, historical traditions, and political arrangements. While this methodology is nothing new, the justification for its legitimacy provided in this study is, however, new.

Although both the nature and direction of these institutional changes vary by country-specific economic, political/cultural, and resource realities, there are clearly identifiable trends and patterns. The 1993 World Bank Water Resources Management Policy calls for a comprehensive water resources framework that recognizes appropriate management of water resources, that rely also on sound institutions. World Bank portfolio includes now water projects with massive components of institutional reforms, at all water sub-sectors and management levels.

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