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

by R. Maria Saleth and Ariel Dinar

This outstanding new book provides the most detailed and comprehensive evaluation of water reform and water sector performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economy. Skilfully integrating institutional theory with resource economics, and set against an exhaustive review of the theoretical and empirical literature, the authors develop an alternative methodology to quantitatively assess the performance of institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843767775
• ISBN13: 9781843767770
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages