@article{Schrecongost:11137,
      recid = {11137},
      author = {Schrecongost, Alyse},
      title = {Irrigation Costs and Prices: An Institutional Economic  Analysis of Pricing Strategies in the Office Du Niger and  Small Pump-Irrigated Village Perimeters in Mali},
      address = {2005},
      number = {1097-2016-88634},
      series = {Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers},
      pages = {109},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {This paper explores the link between cost and price in two  irrigation schemes in Mali - the Office du Niger (ON), a  large-scale gravity irrigation authority, and a number of  small pump-irrigated fields at village perimeters along the  Niger River (Petits Perimetres d'Irrigation Villagois).  I  argue that the effectiveness of cost-recovery pricing  strategies for improving the long-run financial  sustainability of irrigation systems and advancing national  development objectives is a function of decision-making  processes, which influence the distribution and absolute  levels of cost and benefit flows.  Participants'  willingness and capacity to invest in problem solving play  an important part in irrigation system viability by  increasing the rate of technological and institutional  change, which can increase benefits and decrease costs of  production.  Understanding formal and informal  relationships between service users and service providers  can help reveal institution-based sources of incentives and  disincentives for parties to invest in producing effort and  solving problems.  The paper examines the price strategies  in two case studies and the relationships among  stakeholders in the design and implementation of each  system's price strategies.  Institutional theory suggests  ways to align individual incentives with the objectives of  the pricing strategy; targeted investments may be needed to  provide participants with the means to act on  institutionally designed incentives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/11137},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.11137},
}