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Prices, property and markets in water allocation
(ECLAC, 1998-02)
Abstract
This paper examines the means to incorporate the use of market signals through prices into water resources management with the objective of improving efficiency in the allocation of water. It reviews a vast body ...
Effects of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on prices and affordability of soft drinks in Chile: A time series analysis
(Elsevier, 2020)
Chile is one of several countries that recently implemented a fiscal policy to reduce soft drink (SD) intake and obesity. In 2014 the government increased the existing ad-valorem tax on high-sugar SD by 5% and decreased ...
The regulation of public utilities of the future in Latin America and Caribbean: water resource regulation in Brazil
(2019-04-30)
While 12% of the world’s freshwater is located in Brazil, it is unevenly distributed across the country. As a result, water scarcity is a real and present challenge in many areas across Brazil. Scarcity, in turn, creates ...
Own-price, cross-price, and expenditure elasticities on sugar-sweetened beverages in Guatemala.
Background The obesity epidemic is spreading rapidly in Guatemala, a low/middle income country still struggling with undernutrition. Sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption is strongly associated with overweight, ...
Sensitivity of Water Price Elasticity Estimates to Different Data Aggregation Levels
(2021-04)
The empirical literature on residential water demand employs various data aggregation methods, which depend on whether the aggregation is over consumption, sociodemographic variables, or both. In this study, we distinguish ...
Administration and Management of Irrigation Water in 24 User Organizations in Chile
(Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA, 2009)
The effect of price and socio-economic level on the consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB): The case of Ecuador.
The objective of this article is to estimate the own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of demand for SSB in Ecuador, as an indispensable step for predicting a reduction in the consumption of said beverages caused ...
Escenarios de demanda y políticas para la administración del agua potable en México: el caso de Hermosillo, Sonora
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2010)
Economic analysis of projects of investmentAnálisis económico de proyectos de inversión
(Pereira : Universidad Tecnológica de PereiraFacultad de Ciencias Básicas, 2011)