Policy Nook — Policy Note: Benefit Cost Analysis of Water Investments in the Anthropocene

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Sterner, Thomas
Whittington, Dale
Carson, Richard

Introduction

Water management is becoming increasingly challenging. The core problem in many locations is an old one: water scarcity will increase as demand rises due to population and economic growth. Conditions in the modern Anthropocene — higher temperatures, continental drying, higher evaporation, and non-stationary hydrology — will add complexity.

Peer Reviewed
Policy Design, Water

Business owners in Tanzania are willing to pay more for an improved electricity supply

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Meles, Tensay H.
Lokina, Razack
Mtenga, Erica
Tibanywana, Julieth Julius

Topic:  Stated Preferences with Survey Consequentiality and Outcome Uncertainty: A Split Sample Discrete Choice Experiment

Research questions: How much are Tanzanian business enterprises willing to pay (WTP) for a better quality of electricity supply?

Key Messages

  • Business enterprises strongly value an improved electricity supply, urging policymakers and utilities to minimize power outages and revise tariffs accordingly.

Research Brief
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If we miss the context policies may be toothless

Around the world, governments are fighting poverty, environmental degradation, and many other deprivations. Despite lacking resources and limited capacity, they have no choice but to try. Numerous policies and interventions are published every year: subsidies, promotion, social mobilization, and so on. Each policy looks great in writing, but many of them do not move at all. Hardly anyone in government can even answer how many such policies exist. These policies are adapted for the sake of satisfying populism or to show progress.

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