UID:
edoccha_9958096942502883
Format:
xviii, 130 pages :
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illustrations ;
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28 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-78746-9
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9786611787462
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0-8213-7543-1
Series Statement:
Independent Evaluation Group Studies
Content:
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank has undertaken impact evaluations of the Bank's support to irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India (under AP Irrigation II and III), and of the U.K. Department for International Development supported Rural Livelihoods Project (RLP).This is one of a series of IEG impact evaluations (see appendix H). IEG's program of impact evaluation is in part carried out under a Department for International Development-IEG partnership agreement; hence the focus on RLP. However, survey villages are also covered by the Bank supported DPIP project, so that the
Note:
"Prepared by Howard White and Edoardo Masset, with inputs from Nina Blöndal, under the guidance of Alain Barbu"--P. ix.
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Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Executive Summary; 1 Introduction; Box 1.1 Irrigation: The Basics; Table 1.1 Bank-Supported Irrigation Projects in Andhra Pradesh; Box 1.2 Some Local Terminology; Box 1.3 The IEG Survey; 2 The Projects; Figure 2.1 Irrigated Area in SRSP; Figure 2.2 Irrigation Sources, 2005 and 2006; 3 Water User Associations; Figure 3.1 Households Accessing Canal and Tank Irrigation Systems Most Likely to Be in a WUA; Figure 3.2 Likelihood of WUA Membership Increases Sharply with Wealth; Figure 3.3 Large Landowners Most Likely to Be WUA Members
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Marginal Farmers also ActiveFigure 3.4 Lorenz Curve for Land Ownership by Irrigation Source; Box 3.1 Diversion of Water to Tanks Limits the Number of Beneficiaries; Table 3.1 Participation in WUA Activities, 2006; Figure 3.5 Larger Landholders More Likely to Think Water Is Fairly Distributed, as Are WUA Members; 4 Economic Benefits; Figure 4.1 Irrigation Increases Yields . . . But by Less than Assumed at Appraisal; Figure 4.2 Cropping Pattern by Irrigation Source, 2006; Figure 4.3 Cropping Intensity by Number of Irrigation Sources, 2006
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Figure 4.4 Increased Cropping Intensity Comes from Additional Growing SeasonsTable 4.1 Crop Failure by Irrigation Source; Figure 4.5 Seasonal Employment Effects; Figure 4.6 Distribution of Irrigation Benefits Skewed toward the Better Off; Figure 4.7 Poverty Impact of Irrigation; Figure 4.8 Income Distribution Improved between 2005 and 2006; Table 4.2 Estimates of the Economic Rate of Return; Table 4.3 Alternative Estimates of the Economic Rate of Return; Box 4.1 Improving the Quality of Sensitivity Analysis in Bank Appraisals
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Figure 4.9 Investments in SRBC Had No Chance of Providing an Acceptable Rate of Return5 Summary and Lessons Learned; Appendixes; Endnotes; Bibliography
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-7542-3
Language:
English
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