Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521380737)

In this book, Leslie Small and Ian Carruthers examine in detail the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance. Both authors have extensive field experience in irrigation in developing countries and have combined this experience with simple concepts of economics to examine possible institutional and financial reforms that would not simply ask farmers to pay for an inadequate irrigation service, but would create the potential for significant improvements in the quality of the service provided. The proposed elements of any such reform are discussed in depth--a system of user fees covering the recurrent costs of irrigation; a financially autonomous irrigation agency that can retain and use the fees to operate and maintain the irrigation facilities; and a macro policy environment that is not unduly skewed against the agricultural sector.

Author: Leslie E. Small,Ian Carruthers,Small Leslie E.
ISBN-10: 0521380731
ISBN-13: 9780521380737
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/1991
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.40w x 0.88d