Groundwater irrigation and the rural poor : options for development in the Gangetic Basin /
This volume reports on a concerted effort to analyze and reflect on the possible role of groundwater development in helping to address the persistent rural poverty problem in Bangladesh, Nepal, and eastern India, an area in large part coincident with the Gangetic Basin. The work was initiated by the...
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Overview / Friedrich Kahnert and Gilbert Levine
- Key findings, recommendations, and summary / Friedrich Kahnert and Gilbert Levine
- Pt. 1. Bangladesh
- 1. National water planning in Bangladesh 1985-2005: the role of groundwater in irrigation development / G. T. Keith Pitman
- 2. Improving the access of the rural poor to groundwater irrigation in Bangladesh / M. A. Hamid
- 3. Groundwater irrigation in Bangladesh: access, competition, and performance / M. A. S. Mandal
- 4. Socialization of minor irrigation: a strategy for growth with equity / Qazi Faruque Ahmed
- Pt. 2. Nepal
- 5. Use of groundwater resources to alleviate poverty in Nepal: policy issues / S. K. Upadhyay
- 6. Improving access of the poor to groundwater in Nepal: sociopolitical and managerial issues / R. N. Deo
- Pt. 3. India
- 7. Groundwater development for economic emancipation in the lower Ganges Basin: problems, prospects, and strategies / T. Prasad
- 8. Performance of the World Bank tube wells in India / Niranjan Pant
- 9. Management of public tube wells in Uttar Pradesh / Shashi Kolavalli and Nitin Shah
- 10. Efficiency and equity impacts of groundwater markets: a review of issues, evidence, and policies / Tushaar Shah
- 11. Delivery of credit to poor farmers for groundwater irrigation: Eastern Indian experience / Shibasankar Chakraborty
- Appendix: Literature review / G. Levine, S. Abeyratne, and U. Pradhan
- Maps: The Ganges Basin: major sub-basins
- The Ganges Basin: aquifer characteristics and groundwater development