Documents et rapports

Over-Drilling : Local Externalities and the Social Cost of Electricity Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping (anglais)

Borewells for groundwater extraction have proliferated across South Asia, encouraged by subsidized electricity for pumping. Because borewells operating near one another experience mutually attenuated discharges...

Efficient Irrigation and Water Conservation : Evidence from South India (anglais)

Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed as a means of limiting groundwater overexploitation, especially in the intensively farmed and water-stressed...

Efficient Irrigation and Water Conservation : Evidence from South India (anglais)

Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed as a means of limiting groundwater over-exploitation, especially in the intensively farmed and water-stressed...

Optimal Pricing of a New Utility Service : The Case of Piped Water in Vietnam (anglais)

As utility services expand throughout the developing world, providers must grapple with how to set prices to recover average costs. Data from a multi-year randomized pricing experiment among nearly 1500...

Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics (anglais)

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David...

The Monsoon Shock in Rural Nepal : Panel Evidence from the Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey (anglais)

Monsoon rainfall is a key driver of economic life in rural Nepal as well as a major source of income variability. In this paper, the authors use a newly collected 3-year panel data set, representative...

Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia (anglais)

The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic...

Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia (anglais)

The 2014–15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic...

Governing the commons? : water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin (anglais)

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...

Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus basin (anglais)

Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge...

Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin : Decentralization and redistribution : irrigation reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin (anglais)

Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan’s vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge...

Governing the commons? Water and power in Pakistan's Indus Basin (anglais)

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...

Well-fare economics of groundwater in South Asia (anglais)

Groundwater exploitation has been instrumental in raising agricultural productivity andreducing rural poverty in South Asia, a region that accounts for nearly half of the globalgroundwater used for irrigation...

Markets, contracts, and uncertainty in a groundwater economy (anglais)

Groundwater is a vital yet threatened resource in much of South Asia. This paper develops a model of groundwater transactions under payoff uncertainty arising from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwater...

Smart subsidy? welfare and distributional implications of Malawi’s FISP (anglais)

Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993-2011 (anglais)

This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework...

Food prices, wages, and welfare in rural India (anglais)

With soaring food prices in recent years has come alarm about rising poverty in the developing world. Less appreciated, however, is that many of the poor in agricultural economies may benefit from higher...

Food prices, wages, and welfare in rural India (anglais)

This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the district...

Monsoon babies : rainfall shocks and child nutrition in Nepal (anglais)

Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced human capital? This paper exploits the timing of monsoon rainfall shocks and the seasonal...

Weather and child health in rural Nigeria (anglais)

The effect of weather shocks on children's anthropometrics is investigated using the two most recent rounds of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. For this purpose, climate data for each survey...