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Valuing the environment in developing countries : modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver on the citizens' willingness to pay for improved environmental quality
- Title
- Valuing the environment in developing countries : modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver on the citizens' willingness to pay for improved environmental quality / Ekin Birol and Sukanya Das.
- Author
- Birol, Ekin.
- Publication
- Chennai : Madras School of Economics, 2010.
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- Description
- 25 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Abstract: "In this paper we employ the choice experiment method to estimate local citizen's valuation of a public intervention which proposes to improve the quality of an important environmental resource, namely the river Ganga in India. 150 randomly selected citizens of the municipality of Chandernagore located on the banks of the river Ganga in West Bengal are interviewed to elicit their willingness to pay (WTP) in higher municipality taxes for an intervention that proposes to improve the quantity and quality of wastewater treated by the local sewage treatment plant (STP). The findings reveal that almost all (98%) of the citizens value of the quality of the water and the environment in the river Ganga, though a great majority (90%) protested the intervention, by not choosing the improved STP scenario in at least one of the eight hypothetical markets they were asked to participate. When asked their reasons for not preferring the improved scenarios, 92% of them stated that they do not trust the authorities to manage the funds generated through additional taxes efficiently and effectively ..."
- Series Statement
- Working paper ; 55/2010
- Uniform Title
- Working paper (Madras School of Economics) ; 55/2010.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).
- LCCN
- 2011323667
- OCLC
- 731373315
- ocn731373315
- SCSB-5649479
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries