Reform of Water Pricing Policies

Pricing policies

Pricing Policies in Managing Water Resources in Agriculture: An Application of Contract Theory to Unmetered Water

The paper explores how agricultural water pricing could contribute to lowering water demand when uses are unobserved (asymmetric information). The topic of the paper is justified by the fact that most water authorities worldwide do not control water uses at the farm scale. The study draws inspiration from the pricing policies of a Reclamation and Irrigation Board in Northern Italy. It analyses ...

Essential medicines pricing--reform needed.

In The Lancet today, Alexandra Cameron and colleagues report on the price, availability, and relative aff ordability of a series of essential medicines in the six WHO administrative regions, in a secondary analysis of data collected in WHO/Health Action International (HAI) surveys. This new report builds on their previous work outlining drug prices in the WHO/HAI database and their relation to ...

simulation of farmers’ response to irrigation water pricing and rationing policies (case study: zabol city)

considering that agricultural sector is the largest consumer of water, presenting integrated management for water resources and formulating effective policies to increase water productivity in this sector is essential. therefore, using economic modeling , this study simulated the farmers’ responses to irrigation water pricing and rationing policies in zabol city. to achieve the study purpose, t...

Pricing Policies in Academic Libraries

ECONOMICPRESSURE ON LIBRARIES in the United States is approaching a critical stage.’ Academic libraries in particular are vulnerable to this pressure because of tightened budgets coupled with rapidly increasing costs. Academic institutions have been hurt economically by the need to increase tuition, while enrollment is decreasing due to lower birthrates in the 1950s and early 1960s, less intere...