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

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  • Jacoby,Hanan G.
  • Mansuri,Ghazala

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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 state. This paper studies water allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political influence of nearly a quarter million irrigators in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin watershed allow the construction of a novel index of lobbying power. Consistent with a model of misgovernance, the decline in water availability and land values from channel head to tail is accentuated along canals having greater lobbying power at the head than at the tail.

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  • Jacoby,Hanan G. & Mansuri,Ghazala, 2018. "Governing the commons? : water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8351, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8351
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    1. Chenyang Xu & Klaas van’t Veld, 2020. "Team Inspection in the Management of Common-Pool Resources When Corruption is Present," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 75(3), pages 553-584, March.
    2. Usman Khan Ahmadi & Mohibullah Kakar & Lubna Anjum & Rahmatullah Afghanzai, 2021. "To Assess The Impacts Of Hydraulic Parameters Of Water Channel On Pre And Post Lining: A Case Study In Faisalabad Irrigation Zone," Big Data In Water Resources Engineering (BDWRE), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 2(1), pages 12-17, October.

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