Market efficiency and welfare effects of inter-sectoral water allocation in South Africa

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-231

  Juana, James S ^a   Strzepek, Kenneth M ^b   Kirsten, Johann F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Households' welfare; Sectoral output; Value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955019566     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2010.096     Document Type: Article

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