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AbstractTaking water institutions as an illustrative context, this paper attempts a quantitative analysis of the structural and functional linkages within institutional structure and indicates their performance implications and strategic importance for promoting institutional reforms. Against an overview of existing empirical works on institutions in general and water institutions in particular, the paper develops an analytical framework for specifying alternative models of institution–performance interaction within the water sector under different assumptions concerning institutional linkages and their structural properties. These models are, then, empirically estimated using the perception-based information provided by an international panel of 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world. Based on the model results, the paper offers quantitative evidences for institutional linkages and their performance implications, and concludes by indicating their policy roles, especially in developing some reform design and implementation principles useful to overcome the technical and political economy constraints for institutional reforms.

While institutional reforms are critical for developing countries to enhance and sustain the economic and environmental contributions of their water sector, undertaking them is not an easy task in view of binding technical and political economy constraints. Despite these constraints, reforms of varying degree do occur in the water sector of many developing countries. What is the nature and extent of these reforms? How can we explain the forces that motive and constrain the reform process? How do countries overcome the reform constraints? What are the policy lessons that these reform experiences offer to other countries at reform threshold? This chapter attempts to address these and related questions by (a) utilizing an institutional transaction cost framework and (b) relying on stylized facts on water institutional reform observed across countries, empirical evidences on how institutional design and implementation principles are used to circumvent technical and political economy constraints, and case studies on the reform process in country-specific context. Based on the discussion and analysis, the chapter, then, concludes by identifying key implications for both theory and policy that could contribute to international policy dialogue on the interface between institutional reform and water resources management.

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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 -- Indian Economy inTransition: Context and Overview of Issues -- 2 -- Globalization and Indian Economy: Issues and Concerns -- 3 -- Food Price Inflation and Public Procurement: The Indian Experience -- 4 -- Agrarian Change under Reforms: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu, 1980-2005 -- 5 -- Is Farming Profitable to Farmers in India? Evidence from Cost of Cultivation Survey Data -- 6 -- Measuring Labour Market Insecurity in Rural India: A Gendered Analysis -- 7 -- 'Education for All' in India: Issues, Policies and Imperatives* -- 8 -- The Emerging Ageing Scenario in India, 2001-51 -- 9 -- Impacts of Increased Urban Demand for Wateron Livelihood Resilience in Peri-urban Areas of Chennai -- 10 -- Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India -- 11 -- Household-level Pollutionin India: Patterns and Projections* -- 12 -- Market-based Institutional Reforms for Water Allocation in India: Issues and the Way Forward -- 13 -- Millennium Development Goals: How Is India Doing? -- 14 -- Social Discriminationin India: A Case for Economic Citizenship* -- 15 -- 'Rural Poverty: Policy and Play Acting' Revisited. Why Doesn't the Indian State Do Better in Regard to Poverty Reduction? -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.