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Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project: J. Economic and financial appraisal
Author: Preliminary Methodology for the Economic Appraisal of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Author: Willem H. Van Den ToornPublisher:
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Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Economics and Social Cost Benefit Analysis of a Multipurpose Water Project
Author: Moeketsi Pius SenaoanaLesotho Highlands Water Project
Author: Lawrence J.M. HaasPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082138435X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This paper considers the multi-faceted lessons of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and how the project can serve as a model of mutually beneficial development, though demonstrating the benefits of a bilateral governmental cooperative approach in the development of an international river. These benefits include exceeding the impact of individual national approaches and strengthening political cooperation among all participants. This model is particularly relevant since approximately 40 percent of the world s population lives in transboundary river basins and more than 90 percent of the world s population lives within countries that share these basins.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Author: Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Main report
Author: Lesotho Highlands Water Project: I. Project cost studies
Author: The Ecological Economics of Inter-basin Water Transfers: the Case of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Author: Mampiti Elizabeth MatetePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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This study developed a general framework that can be applied to integrating environmental sustainability aspects into economic development planning in the case of exploiting water resources through inter-basin water transfers (IBWT). Using the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) between Lesotho and South Africa (SA), the study used the multi-country ecological social accounting matrix (MC-ESAM) for Lesotho and SA to integrate ecological implications of the LHWP with the economic benefits of the project. The study further used the developed MC-ESAM multipliers to analyse the impact of lost ecological services downstream the LHWP dams in Lesotho on the wellbeing of households directly affected by the project in Lesotho and the general economies of Lesotho and SA. The MC-ESAM multipliers were also used to analyse different policy scenarios aimed at compensating affected households in Lesotho for ecological losses. The results revealed that while the LHWP has significant direct and indirect benefits in terms of social and economic development in Lesotho and SA, the project has serious unitended impacts on ecological resources and services, with resultant deleterious wellbeing implications for populations residing within the reaches of the LHWP rivers and downstream the LHWP dams in Lesotho. The results from the MC-ESAM multiplier analysis indicated that not only the income of populations directly affected by the project in Lesotho is likely to fall, but also that of other households and social groups, as well as the general economies of Lesotho. Also, because of economic dependence of Lesotho on SA in terms of imports, SA will also loose. The policy simulation results showed that compensating the ecological losses would greatly improve the welfare of directly affected populations and the rest of Lesotho economy. The empirical analysis and policy simulations results showed relatively small impacts in general, but were significant for groups of people directly affected by the project in Lesotho. The study demonstrated the importance of integrating ecological consequences into impact assessment of IBWT before such transfers can be implemented to ensure Pareto optimality and of considering economy-wide impacts and multi-sector, multi-country linkages associated with IBWT for a holistic impact assessment of IBWT.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project: B1-B5
Author: Socio Economic Impacts of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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