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Does Greater Autonomy Improve Performance? Evidence From Water Service Providers In Indian Cities

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  • Shreekant Gupta

    (Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India)

  • Surender Kumar

    (Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi)

  • Gopal K. Sarangi

    (TERI University, New Delhi)

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We assess the efficiency of urban water supply in 27 Indian cities using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We also group cities by the management structure of their water utilities. Utilities with greater degree of functional autonomy perform better, supporting the hypothesis that more autonomy in management leads to better performance among water utilites. Our results also have implications for urban domestic water pricing--most of the utilities operate under decreasing returns to scale (DRS) implying water should be priced at marginal cost of supply.

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Paper provided by Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics in its series Working papers with number 205.

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Length: 24 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2011
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Handle: RePEc:cde:cdewps:205

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