Willingness to pay, borrow, and work for rural water service improvements in developing countries

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Abramson, Adam ^a   Becker, Nir ^b   Garb, Yaakov ^a   Lazarovitch, Naftali ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; COST RECOVERY; DISCRETE CHOICE; LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; META-ANALYSIS; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; RURAL CATCHMENTS; SUSTAINABLE WATER; USER DEMANDS; WATER SERVICE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CATCHMENTS; DEPRECIATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; RECOVERY; RURAL AREAS; WATER CONSERVATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; META-ANALYSIS; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ZAMBIA;

EID: 81155127457     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010147     Document Type: Article

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