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1 The Economist. 2000. Pocket world in figures. London, UK: Penguin Group : Hamish Hamilton Ltd. In association with The Economist Newspaper Ltd. v. ; 20 cm. Began with 1991 ed. (Pocket world in figures)
(Location: IWMI-SEA Call no: 310.5 G000 ECO Record No: BKK-43)
2 Hoanh, Chu Thai; Guttman, H.; Droogers, P.; Aerts, J. 2003. Water, climate, food, and environment in the Mekong basin in southeast Asia: contribution to the project ADAPT: adaptation strategies to changing environments. Final report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Vientiane, Laos: Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS); Amsterdam, Netherlands: Institute of Environmental Studies (IVM) 57p.
River basins ; Climate change ; Environmental effects ; Land use ; Surface water ; Groundwater ; Soils ; Social aspects ; Economic indicators ; Models ; Food security / South East Asia / Mekong River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041917)
ftp://ftp.ciat.cgiar.org/DAPA/tass/Data/Mekong/Mekong%20Literature/Hydrology/ADAPT%20Mekong_FinalReport.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041917.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H041917.pdf
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3 Karthikeyan, C.; Chellamuthu, S.; Mayilswami, C.; Kuppannan, Palanisami; Mohan, Kadiri. 2012. Micro-irrigation and capacity building: a success story of TNDRIP. In Palanisami, Kuppannan; Raman, S.; Mohan, Kadiri (Eds.). Micro-irrigation: economics and outreach. New Delhi, India: Macmillan. pp.295-314.
Irrigation systems ; Microirrigation ; Drip irrigation ; Capacity building ; Farmers ; Research projects ; Analytical methods ; Water use efficiency ; Economic aspects ; Economic indicators / India / Tamil Nadu / Coimbatore District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044880)
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4 Baum, E.; Gyiele, L. A.; Drechsel, P.; Nurah, G. K. 1999. Tools for the economic analysis and evaluation of on-farm trials. [Training/Course material] Bangkok, Thailand: International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM). 58p. (IBSRAM Global Tool Kit Series 1)
Economic analysis ; Economic indicators ; On-farm research ; Cash flow ; Budgeting ; Benefit-cost ratio ; Production factors ; Land use ; Land management ; Soil conservation ; Labour productivity ; Farmers ; Crop yield ; Maize ; Fertilizers
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046252)
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5 Hachigonta, S.; Nelson, G. C.; Thomas, T. S.; Sibanda, L. M. (Eds.) 2013. Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 337p. (Climate Change in Africa 3) [doi: https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292086]
Climate change ; Agriculture ; Income ; Models ; Crop production ; Maize ; Sorghum ; Policy ; Farmers ; Economic indicators ; Poverty ; Nutrition ; Food security ; Population growth ; Rainfed farming ; Public health ; Water resources ; Livestock ; Land use ; Precipitation / Southern Africa / Botswana / Lesotho / Malawi / Mozambique / South Africa / Swaziland / Zambia / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 635.0968 G154 HAC Record No: H046665)
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/rr179.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046665.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046665.pdf
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6 Matchaya, Greenwell; Chilonda, Pius; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso. 2013. Agricultural growth trends and outlook for southern Africa: inter-temporal trends and patterns in agricultural investment spending in southern Africa. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 100p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2012)
Agricultural development ; Productivity ; Public investment ; Public expenditure ; Private sector ; Irrigation ; Economic growth ; Trade ; Labour productivity ; Income ; Poverty ; Economic indicators / Southern Africa / SADC countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046771)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/ReSAKSS-SA%20Annual%20Trends%20and%20Outlook%20Report%202012.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046771.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046771.pdf
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7 Matchaya, Greenwell Collins; Phiri, A.; Chilonda, Pius; Musaba, Emmanuel. 2014. Agricultural Growth Trends and Outlook Report: trends in agricultural sector performance, growth and poverty in Malawi. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 70p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2012)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural budgets ; Agricultural trade ; Economic indicators ; Performance indexes ; Public investment ; Expenditure ; Exports ; Imports ; Food security ; Poverty ; Hunger ; Nutrition ; Public health ; Households ; Population structure ; Labour productivity ; Land productivity ; Farmers ; Livestock ; Fisheries / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046781)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/resakss_malawi_ator.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046781.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046781.pdf
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8 Scoones, I. 2015. Sustainable livelihoods and rural development. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 149p. (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies 4)
Living standards ; Sustainability ; Rural development ; Rural poverty ; Economic indicators ; Analysis ; Participatory approaches ; Empowerment ; Strategies ; Agrarian reform ; Political ecology ; Social aspects ; Equity ; Corporate culture ; Policy ; Environmental effects ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 307.1412 G000 SCO Record No: H047219)
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9 Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Nhemachena, Charles. 2016. Agricultural growth trends and outlook for Southern Africa: promoting agricultural trade to enhance resilience in Southern Africa. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 84p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2013)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural budgets ; Agricultural trade ; Agricultural products ; Economic indicators ; Community development ; Trade liberalization ; Food prices ; Market information services ; Production costs ; Drought ; Cereal products ; Socioeconomic environment ; Poverty / Southern Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047998)
http://www.resakss.org/sites/default/files/ReSAKSS-SA%20Trends%20Report%202013_Final.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047998.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047998.pdf
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10 Ndikumana, L.; Pickbourn, L. 2017. The impact of foreign aid allocation on access to social services in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of water and sanitation. World Development, 90:104-114. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.09.001]
Development aid ; Social services ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Population ; Public health ; Poverty ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; State intervention ; Economic indicators ; Gross national product ; Models ; Regression analysis ; Econometrics ; Sustainable development / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048002)
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The Sustainable Development target of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all by 2030 has far-reaching implications for the achievement of the other SDGs. However, achieving this target remains a major challenge for sub-Saharan Africa, and the ability of governments in the region to expand access is constrained by limited financial resources. This paper investigates whether targeting foreign aid to the water and sanitation sector can help achieve the goal of expanding access to water and sanitation services in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on panel data estimation techniques controlling for country-specific effects and potential endogeneity of regressors. The econometric results suggest that increased aid targeted to the supply of water and sanitation is associated with increased access to these services, although the relationship is non-linear. The evidence in this study makes an important contribution to the scholarly debate on aid effectiveness. It also has important practical implications for aid policy: specifically, it suggests that in addition to scaling up aid disbursements to sub-Saharan African countries, donors need to increase aid allocation to water and sanitation as well as other areas where the region lags behind. There is also a need to identify structural constraints that may limit access to water and sanitation, and utilize foreign aid so as to alleviate these constraints.
11 Nhemachena, Charles; Matchaya, Greenwell; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso. 2017. Agricultural growth trends and outlook for Lesotho. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 30p. (ReSAKSS-SA Annual Trends and Outlook Report 2016)
Agricultural development ; Agricultural sector ; Performance evaluation ; Agricultural production ; Agricultural productivity ; Environmental effects ; Climate change ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Poverty ; Equity ; Economic indicators ; Gross national product ; Agricultural trade ; Expenditure ; Agroecological zones ; Soils ; Arable land ; Development programmes / Southern Africa / Lesotho
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048751)
http://resakss.org/sites/default/files/ReSAKSS-SA%20-%20ATOR%20-%202016%20-%20high%20res%20with%20crop%20marks%20%28002%29.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048751.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048751.pdf
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12 Merino-Saum, A.; Baldi, M. G.; Gunderson, I.; Oberle, B. 2018. Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: a systematic analysis. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 139:90-103. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.07.007]
Natural resources ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Development indicators ; Economic indicators ; Frameworks ; Environmental factors ; Social aspects ; Institutions ; Resource management
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049323)
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Natural Resources are essential inputs for economic and social development. However, unsustainable resource use has led to environmental degradation and resource depletion, endangering the well-being of humanity and the environment. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a plan of action to address these issues. The Green Economy (GE) concept is described by various institutions as a vehicle to move towards sustainable resource management. This paper demonstrates the linkages between SDGs and Natural Resources though the systematic analysis of 494 GE indicators, derived from 12 distinct frameworks focusing on GE or on Green Growth. This articulation provides insights to gain an improved understanding of the links between SDGs and Natural Resources and interpret their inherent complexity. GE indicators focus unevenly on SDG, although each SDG is related to at least one resource category. Two complementary typologies were applied to the Materials subcategory to highlight additional characteristics, leading to the proposal of an adaptable analytical framework for the assessment of sustainability issues and GE transitions
13 Balasubramanya, Soumya; Stifel, David; Alvi, M.; Ringler, C. 2022. The role of social identity in improving access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and health services: evidence from Nepal. Development Policy Review, 40(4):e12588. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12588]
Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Social status ; Inclusion ; Drinking water ; Hand washing ; Public health ; Health services ; Toilets ; Households ; Economic indicators / Nepal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050673)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dpr.12588
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050673.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050673.pdf
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Motivation: COVID-19 has revived focus on improving equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health services in developing countries. Most public programming tends to rely on economic indicators to identify and target vulnerable groups. Can expanded targeting criteria that include social status help to improve not only targeting, but also equity in access to WASH and health services?
Purpose: This paper assesses the role of social identity in mediating access to WASH and health services, controlling for economic disadvantages such as household wealth, income sources and assets.
Methods and approach: We use regression analysis applied to the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to estimate the relationships between social identity and access to WASH and health services, controlling for wealth (using wealth index quantiles), and remittances (using indicator variables for domestic and international remittances).
Findings: We find that differences in access are mediated in large part by caste, and religious and ethnic identity, especially in rural areas; suggesting that the supply of such services is lower for historically disadvantaged communities. In addition, communities with lowest access are not necessarily the most economically disadvantaged, indicating that relying solely on traditional economic indicators to target programs and interventions may not be sufficient to improve equity in access to public health services.
Policy implications: The results make a case for broadening indicators beyond the economic criteria for improving targeting of public funds for more inclusive development.
Purpose: This paper assesses the role of social identity in mediating access to WASH and health services, controlling for economic disadvantages such as household wealth, income sources and assets.
Methods and approach: We use regression analysis applied to the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) to estimate the relationships between social identity and access to WASH and health services, controlling for wealth (using wealth index quantiles), and remittances (using indicator variables for domestic and international remittances).
Findings: We find that differences in access are mediated in large part by caste, and religious and ethnic identity, especially in rural areas; suggesting that the supply of such services is lower for historically disadvantaged communities. In addition, communities with lowest access are not necessarily the most economically disadvantaged, indicating that relying solely on traditional economic indicators to target programs and interventions may not be sufficient to improve equity in access to public health services.
Policy implications: The results make a case for broadening indicators beyond the economic criteria for improving targeting of public funds for more inclusive development.
14 Leiva, E.; Rodríguez, C.; Sanchez, R.; Serrano, J. 2021. Light or dark greywater for water reuse? Economic assessment of on-site greywater treatment systems in rural areas. Water, 13(24):3637. (Special issue: Urban Wastewater Reuse – Challenges, Risks and Opportunities) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243637]
Wastewater treatment ; Water reuse ; Economic analysis ; Rural areas ; Costs ; Economic benefits ; Economic indicators ; Environmental factors ; Willingness to pay ; Filtration ; Sensitivity analysis / Chile / Coquimbo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050781)
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Water scarcity is causing a great impact on the population. Rural areas are most affected by often lacking a stable water supply, being more susceptible to the impact of drought events, and with greater risk of contamination due to the lack of appropriate water treatment systems. Decentralized greywater treatment systems for water reuse in rural areas can be a powerful alternative to alleviate these impacts. However, the economic feasibility of these systems must be thoroughly evaluated. This study reports an economic analysis carried out on the viability of greywater reuse considering scenarios with light greywater or dark greywater to be treated. For this, data obtained from the assembly and monitoring of greywater treatment systems located in the north-central zone of Chile, supplemented with data obtained from the literature were used. The results showed that both scenarios are not economically viable, since the investment and operating costs are not amortized by the savings in water. In both evaluated cases (public schools), the economic indicators were less negative when treating light greywater compared with the sum of light greywater and dark greywater as the inlet water to be treated. The investment and operating costs restrict the implementation of these water reuse systems, since in the evaluation period (20 years) a return on the initial investment is not achieved. Even so, our results suggest that the best alternative to reuse greywater in small-scale decentralized systems is to treat light greywater, but it is necessary to consider a state subsidy that not only supports capital costs but also reduces operating and maintenance costs. These findings support the idea that the type of water to be treated is a factor to consider in the implementation of decentralized greywater treatment systems for the reuse of water in rural areas and can help decision-making on the design and configuration of these systems.
15 El Maksoud, A. E. M. H. A. A.; El Gamal, T. 2022. Economic study for the impact of establishing water users associations in the improved areas – case study: El-Atf Canal – Egypt. Water Practice and Technology, 17(4):901-913. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2022.027]
Water user associations ; Irrigation water ; Water distribution ; Equity ; Irrigation systems ; Maintenance ; Costs ; Water productivity ; Canals ; Economic impact ; Economic indicators ; Farm income ; Case studies / Egypt / El-Atf Canal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051120)
https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article-pdf/17/4/901/1044375/wpt0170901.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051120.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051120.pdf
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Water users associations (WUAs) were established in Egypt to help in rational distribution of irrigation water, in the operation and the maintenance of the improved Mesqas, and in solving the disputes between farmers. This study aimed to assess the economic impact of establishing water users' associations on improving farmers' income through increasing productivity and decreasing irrigation cost. The current study was conducted in an improved canal in El-Menoufia irrigation directorate (El-Atf canal), and it assessed the expected roles of WUAs boards in serving different members through identifying problems and giving suggestions to overcome them, the obstacles of establishing new associations and the impact of WUAs activities on improving the equity of water distribution. The economic impact of WUAs was assessed through comparing the net return per unit area and per unit of water, and water productivity in WUAs fields with traditional fields. The results referred to significant increase in crops yield with a decrease in total cost. As a result, there was an increase in the net return per unit of area and per unit of water. The differences were noticeable at tail end reaches due to the irrigation problems at these reaches before the establishment of WUAs.
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