Water institutional reforms: Theory and practice

Water Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Saleth, R Maria ^a   Dinar, Ariel ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Chile; Institutional environment; Institutional packaging; Institutional sequencing; Institutional structure; Morocco; Namibia; Political economy; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Subjective theory; Theories of institutional change; Transaction cost approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844374105     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2005.0001     Document Type: Review

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