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...
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2018/02/21
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政策研究报告
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WPS8351
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1
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2018/02/21
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Disclosed
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Governing the commons? : water and power in Pakistan's Indus basin
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Policy Research Working Papers