Water as an economic good: a solution, or a problem?
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Date of publication
December 1997
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ISBN / Resource ID
handle:10568/39795
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Discusses the potential opportunities and pitfalls of introducing market forces into the process of water allocation. Proposes several preconditions for beneficial privatization of water allocation and argues for a more sophisticated form of analysis than that generally allowed by proponents of basic needs or of free market approaches.
