UID:
almafu_9960119233502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 201 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-511-62168-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 70
Content:
Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Irrigation financing in perspective -- 1.1 Irrigation in the context of Third World development -- 1.2 The approach of the book -- 1.3 Conclusion -- Analysing financing policies: theory and concepts -- Key concepts from economic theory -- 2.1 Jargon: its use and abuse -- 2.2 Efficiency and equity -- 2.3 Externalities -- 2.4 Diminishing returns and profit maximisation -- 2.5 Capital costs and recurrent costs -- 2.6 Demand and economic rent -- 2.7 Irrigation financing and the role of the public sector -- 2.8 Collective goods and merit wants -- 2.9 Public goods, private goods and public production -- 2.10 Elasticity concepts -- 2.11 Investment concepts -- 2.12 Application of key concepts to pricing of irrigation water -- 2.13 The market model and the difficulties of establishing water markets -- 2.14 Summary -- Evaluating irrigation financing policies: a conceptual framework -- 3.1 Methods of financing irrigation -- 3.2 Evaluating financing policies: What criteria should we use? -- 3.3 Evaluating financing policies: What can be expected? -- 3.4 Summary -- Criteria for evaluating irrigation financing policies -- Cost-effective operation and maintenance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Providing the appropriate level of funds for O& -- M: the budget process -- 4.3 Assuring effective utilisation of resources provided for O& -- M -- 4.4 Summary -- Allocating a scarce resource: water-use efficiency -- 5.1 Prospects for water charges to increase efficiency -- 5.2 Key requirements for water pricing mechanisms -- 5.3 'Fine tuning' a water price system to promote efficiency -- 5.4 Summary -- Improving investment decisions -- 6.1 Potential biases in the investment decision process -- 6.2 National case studies of irrigation investment policies -- 6.3 Summary -- Resource-mobilisation efficiency.
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7.1 Administrative costs -- 7.2 Economic distortion costs -- 7.3 Summary -- The concern for equity -- 8.1 Vertical equity -- 8.2 Horizontal equity and irrigation financing policies -- 8.3 Summary -- Financial autonomy and user fees: key implementation issues -- Establishing financial autonomy -- 9.1 Sources of funds under financial autonomy -- 9.2 Moving from central financing to financial autonomy -- 9.3 Summary -- Setting irrigation fees: reconciling the need for funds with farmers' ability to pay -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Cost-based vs benefit-based irrigation fees -- 10.3 Ability of farmers to pay for irrigation -- 10.4 The need for funds: budgeting for O& -- M -- 10.5 Setting irrigation fees: three practical issues -- 10.6 Summary -- Collecting irrigation fees: fostering a willingness to pay -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Institutional factors -- 11.3 Strategies of collection -- 11.4 Summary -- The political economy of irrigation financing -- 12.1 Water charges and culture -- 12.2 Water politics -- 12.3 Lessons from land reform -- 12.4 Briefing politicians -- 12.5 Mechanisms and goals for irrigation financing and cost recovery -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-43807-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38045-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621680
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621680
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