The Institutional Economics of Water: A Cross-Country Analysis of Institutions and Performance

摘要: This book provides a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of water reform sector performance from the perspectives institutional economics political economy. It integrates theory with resource economics, set against an exhaustive review theoretical empirical literature, authors develop alternative methodology to quantitatively assess institutions in context water. is built on principle 'institutional ecology', decomposition analysis' framework, 'subjective theory' change. Using this new methodology, plus information collected through international survey 127 experts, present analysis process institution-performance interaction sector. Relying transaction cost approach extensive cross-country recent reforms, they also provide evidence relative role various factors that influence extent depth reforms 43 countries regions around world. The concludes far reaching implications for policy particular general.