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A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation

Concepts, Tools and Applications

By: Barbara Van Koppen,Barbara C. P. Koppen

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A Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation

Concepts, Tools and Applications

By: Barbara Van Koppen,Barbara C. P. Koppen

Although gender issues are today a priority on the agendas of irrigation policy makers, interventionists, farm leaders and researchers, there is still a considerable gap between positive intentions and concrete action. An important but hitherto ignored reason for this is the lack of adequate generic concepts and tools that are policy-relevant and can accommodate the vast variation in irrigation contexts worldwide. The Gender Performance Indicator for Irrigation (GPII) aims to fill this gap. In any particular scheme, this tool diagnoses the gendered organization of farming and gender-based inclusion or exclusion in irrigation institutions. It informs irrigation agencies what they themselves can do for effective change-if necessary. The tool also identifies gender issues beyond a strict mandate of irrigation water provision. The Indicator was applied and tested in nine case studies in Africa and Asia. The research report presents the underlying concepts, methodological guidelines and selected applications of the GPII.

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9290904682

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9789290904687

Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara

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Mapping irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: Cai, Xueliang,Magidi, J.,Nhamo, Luxon,van Koppen, Barbara

This report summarizes the findings of a collaborative effort to map and assess irrigated areas in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study was conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the DAFF-supported ‘Revitalization of irrigation in South Africa’ project. Based on a combination of Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data, previous irrigated area mapping exercises carried out by DAFF and three-field ground truthing (GT) surveys, a total of 1.6 million hectares (Mha) of cropland were identified, with 262,000 ha actually irrigated in the 2015 winter season. The study also found that only 29% of all land equipped with center pivots was actually irrigated.

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International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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9290908513

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9789290908517

Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management

Poverty and Gender Issues and Synthesis of Sub-Saharan Africa Case Study Reports

By: Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina

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Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management

Poverty and Gender Issues and Synthesis of Sub-Saharan Africa Case Study Reports

By: Van Koppen, Barbara,Namara, Regassa,Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina

The overall goal of the Collaborative Program on ‘Investments in Agricultural Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa’ is to contribute to broad-based sustainable poverty reduction and smallholder agricultural growth. The component on ‘Poverty considerations in investments in agricultural water management’ focuses in more detail on poverty and gender dimensions. It consists of two parts. The first part is thematic and elaborates poverty and gender issues emerging from the literature that complement the other components of the Collaborative Program. Part two is empirical. Acknowledging the lack of empirical data on poverty impacts of investments in agricultural water management, the Collaborative Program initiated case studies throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight case studies on ‘Agricultural Water Development for Poverty Reduction in Eastern and Southern Africa’, for which the field research was conducted in 2003/2004, were supported by IFAD (Peacock,2005). Further, the African Development Bank supported three case studies in West Africa in 2004, two by Kamara et al. (2004), and one by Babatunde Omilola (2005). Part two synthesizes the empirical findings of these case studies.

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9290906154

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9789290906155

Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice

By: Lyla Mehta,Theib Oweis,Claudia Ringler,Barbara Schreiner,Shiney Varghese

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Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice

By: Lyla Mehta,Theib Oweis,Claudia Ringler,Barbara Schreiner,Shiney Varghese

This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global levels against a backdrop of growing uncertainties. The authors challenge mainstream supply-oriented and neo-Malthusian visions that argue for the need to increase the land area under irrigation in order to feed the world’s growing population. Instead, they argue for a reframing of the debate concerning production processes, waste, food consumption and dietary patterns whilst proposing alternative strategies to improve water and land productivity, putting the interests of marginalized and disenfranchized groups upfront. The book highlights how accessing water for FSN can be challenging for small-holders, vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems and reform processes can negatively affect local people’s informal rights. The book argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and is original in making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men. It will be of great interest to practitioners, students and researchers working on water and food issues.

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Routledge

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1315189941

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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D.

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Smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

By: van Koppen, Barbara,Nhamo, Luxon,Cai, Xueliang,Gabriel, M. J.,Sekgala, M.,Shikwambana, S.,Tshikolomo, K.,Nevhutanda, S.,Matlala, B.,Manyama, D.

A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in South Africa’ project. About one-third of those schemes was fully utilized; one-third partially utilized; and one-third not utilized in the winter of 2015; however, no single socioeconomic, physical, agronomic and marketing variable could explain these differences in utilization. Sale, mostly for informal markets, appeared the most important goal. Dilapidated infrastructure was the most important constraint cited by the farmers. The study recommends ways to overcome the build-neglect-rebuild syndrome, and to learn lessons from informal irrigation, which covers an area three to four times as large as public irrigation schemes in the province.

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International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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9290908521

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals

By: van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline

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Multiple-use water services to advance the millennium development goals

By: van Koppen, Barbara, Moriarty, P., Boelee, Eline

This research report presents the findings of the first phase of the action-research project "Models for implementing multiple-use water supply systems for enhanced land and water productivity, rural livelihoods and gender equity." Multipleuse water services, or "mus" in short, is a participatory, integrated and poverty-reduction focused approach in poor rural and peri-urban areas, which takes people's multiple water needs as a starting point for providing integrated services, moving beyond the conventional sectoral barriers of the domestic and productive sectors.

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9290906278

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Gender in Lift Irrigation Schemes in East Gujarat, India

By: Harmeet Saini,Barbara van Koppen

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Gender in Lift Irrigation Schemes in East Gujarat, India

By: Harmeet Saini,Barbara van Koppen

This study highlights the gender aspects of a community-based irrigation program supported by the NGO, Sadguru. It focuses on the intra-household organization of irrigated agriculture, the gender dimensions of scheme-level irrigation management, and Sadguru’s efforts to strengthen women’s participation in irrigation cooperatives.

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929090433X

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Operationalising hybrid water law for historical justice

By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

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Operationalising hybrid water law for historical justice

By: Mukuyu, Patience,van Koppen, Barbara,Jacobs-Mata, Inga

Final project report submitted to the Water Research Commission (WRC). Pretoria, South Africa: Water Research Commission (WRC).

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0639202144

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Women Irrigators and Leaders in the West Gandak Scheme, Nepal

By: Barbara van Koppen,Jacobijn van Etten,Prabina Bajracharya,Amita Tuladhar

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Women Irrigators and Leaders in the West Gandak Scheme, Nepal

By: Barbara van Koppen,Jacobijn van Etten,Prabina Bajracharya,Amita Tuladhar

Examines the gendered organization of irrigated farming and identifies processes of inclusion and exclusion of women irrigators and women leaders in water users committees. The research evaluates the success of efforts by the newly formed Water Users Association to include women. Recommendations based on the findings are made to address the problems faced by the women irrigators and leaders in the West Gandak scheme.

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9290904364

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Climbing the Water Ladder

Multiple-use Water Services for Poverty Reduction

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,Stef Smits,Patrick Moriarty,Frist Penning de Vries,Monique Mikhail,Eline Boelee

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Climbing the Water Ladder

Multiple-use Water Services for Poverty Reduction

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,Stef Smits,Patrick Moriarty,Frist Penning de Vries,Monique Mikhail,Eline Boelee

Local government can be the pivot to make this happen.

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9066870699

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Poverty Dimensions of Irrigation Management Transfer in Large-scale Canal Irrigation in Andra Pradesh and Gujarat, India

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,Dr. R. Parthasarathy,Constantina Safiliou

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Poverty Dimensions of Irrigation Management Transfer in Large-scale Canal Irrigation in Andra Pradesh and Gujarat, India

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,Dr. R. Parthasarathy,Constantina Safiliou

A growing body of evidence on the impacts of irrigation management transfer (IMT) shows that IMT risks aggravating rural poverty. For governments that aim to continue irrigation management while ensuring that it contributes to poverty alleviation, a "pro-poor" mode of IMT needs to be designed and implemented. That is, a mode of IMT that benefits poor farmers while benefiting non-poor farmers equally, or perhaps to a lesser degree. The present research explores the scope for pro-poor modes of IMT in canal irrigation, focusing on large-scale canal irrigation schemes in India.

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9290904801

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Possible impacts of the transformation of water infrastructure on productive water uses: The case of the Seokodibeng village in South Africa

By: Ladki, MarvanSeshoka, JetrickFaysse, NicolasLévite, Hervevan Koppen, Barbara

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Possible impacts of the transformation of water infrastructure on productive water uses: The case of the Seokodibeng village in South Africa

By: Ladki, MarvanSeshoka, JetrickFaysse, NicolasLévite, Hervevan Koppen, Barbara

The study assesses the current water supply system and water uses in the Seokodibeng village in the former Lebowa homeland, in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. This village is part of a group of 96 villages that are to receive water from a pipeline built by neighboring mines in order to secure their development. The mines and the villages aremembers of the Lebalelo Water User Association. In 2003, this association was the only Water User Association in South Africa not based on farming activities. The initial question of this study concerns the future of productive uses of water at village and household levels once Seokodibeng’s connection to the pipeline is achieved.

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9290905611

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Do equal land and water rights benefit the poor?: Targeted irrigation development: The case of the Andhi Khola Irrigation Scheme in Nepal

By: Jacobijn van Etten,Barbara van Koppen,Shuku Pun

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Do equal land and water rights benefit the poor?: Targeted irrigation development: The case of the Andhi Khola Irrigation Scheme in Nepal

By: Jacobijn van Etten,Barbara van Koppen,Shuku Pun

The present research aims to fill this latter gap by analyzing the experiences in the Andhi Khola Irrigation Scheme in the hills of west central Nepal. The United Mission to Nepal (UMN), in collaboration with the Department of Irrigation of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal, initiated this project in 1982. An area of 282 hectares of which only small portions received water from seasonal streams came under year-round irrigation. A distributive land reform policy was implemented in this area according to which larger farmers had to sell part of their land for resale to the landless. Moreover, the project designed and implemented a water allocation system in which everyone could earn tradable water rights (shares) through participation in construction work. In 1997, the scheme was finalized and handed over to the Andhi Khola Water Users Association (AKWUA).

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9290904836

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Gender and irrigation in India: The Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,van Koppen, B., Nagar, R. K., Vasavada, S.,Rashmi K. Nagar,Shilpa Vasavada

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Gender and irrigation in India: The Women's Irrigation Group of Jambar, South Gujarat

By: Barbara C. P. Koppen,van Koppen, B., Nagar, R. K., Vasavada, S.,Rashmi K. Nagar,Shilpa Vasavada

Documents a “best practice” – a successful gender-balanced irrigation intervention in which women were given control over an irrigation technology. The study evaluates the approach taken by the implementing NGO, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, in terms of its replicability in other areas where women share in farm activities and decision making.

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9290904321

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9789290904328

Applying the Gini Coefficient to measure inequality of water use in the Olifants River water management area, South Africa

By: Cullis, J.,van Koppen, Barbara

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Applying the Gini Coefficient to measure inequality of water use in the Olifants River water management area, South Africa

By: Cullis, J.,van Koppen, Barbara

The present study explores the application of the Gini Coefficient, which has hitherto only been used for income and land distribution, to quantify the distribution of water resources. The tool is tested in the water-stressed Olifants Water Management Area, in South Africa. Using readily available information on water use registrations, water use estimates, and census data, two versions of the Gini Coefficient are calculated. The first measures the distribution of the allocation of direct water use in rural areas and was estimated at 0.96 in the study area. In other words, 99.5 percent of the rural households are entitled to useonly 5 percent of the available water. The second version calculates the distribution of the indirect benefits of water use in the form of direct employment. This is shown to have a Gini Coefficient of 0.64. Using the Gini Coefficient an assessment was also made of the impacts of different policy scenarios. It was found that by more than doubling the amount of water used by rural households from the current 225 cubic meters per household per annum (m3/hh/annum) to 610 m3/hh/annum, which would enable each household to meet its basic human needs of 50 litres/person/day and irrigate 1,000 square meters (m2), would reduce the Gini Coefficient significantly. Yet, this would only require the large-scale registered users to reduce their current irrigation water use entitlement by 6 percent or the largest ten users to reduce their use by 20 percent each.

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9290906650

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Towards Collaborative Research in International Development

The Central Role of Social Science

By: John Spriggs,Barbara Chambers,Carole Kayrooz

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Towards Collaborative Research in International Development

The Central Role of Social Science

By: John Spriggs,Barbara Chambers,Carole Kayrooz

The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development – with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture need to adapt to mesh with this new reality.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1789903696

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9781789903690

An evaluation of proposed World Water Programme indicators for use in South Africa

By: Danny Walmsley,Tommie Havenga,Eberhard Braune,Chris Schmidt,Krishna Prasad,Barbara van Koppen

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An evaluation of proposed World Water Programme indicators for use in South Africa

By: Danny Walmsley,Tommie Havenga,Eberhard Braune,Chris Schmidt,Krishna Prasad,Barbara van Koppen

This present study forms part of this evaluation phase and makes use of South Africa as an African Continent case study to assess and provide feedback on the proposed WWAP indicators. The main objective of the study has been to evaluate the proposed WWAP indicators in terms of their relevance and practicality to South Africa. Carried out in collaboration with the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, this has also provided an opportunity to assess the status of current indicators and reporting initiatives in South Africa, as well as to comment on the process by which indicators might be further developed and used.

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9290905875

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Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer

By: Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad

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Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation

Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer

By: Tushaar Shah,Barbara van Koppen,Douglas Merrey Marna de Lange and, Madar Samad

This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.

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929090481X

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Phase Theory

An Introduction

By: Barbara Citko

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Phase Theory

An Introduction

By: Barbara Citko

Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides an introduction to Phase Theory, tracing the development of phases in minimalist syntax. It reviews both empirical and theoretical arguments in favor of phases, and examines the role phases play at the interface with semantics and phonology. Analyzing current phasehood diagnostics, it applies them in a systematic fashion to a broad range of syntactic categories, both phases and non-phases. It concludes with a discussion of some of the more contentious issues in Phase Theory, involving cross-linguistic variation with respect to phasehood and the dynamic versus static nature of phases.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139916726

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Symmetry in Syntax

Merge, Move and Labels

By: Barbara Citko

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Symmetry in Syntax

Merge, Move and Labels

By: Barbara Citko

While much has been written on asymmetric aspects of sentence structure, symmetric aspects have been largely ignored, or claimed to be non-existent. Does symmetry in syntax exist, and if it does, how do we account for it? In this book, Barbara Citko sets out to tackle these questions and offers a unified approach to a number of phenomena that have so far been studied only in isolation. Focusing on three core minimalist mechanisms: merge, move and labeling, she advances a new theory of these mechanisms, by showing that under certain well-defined circumstances merge can create symmetric structures, move can target either of two potentially moveable objects, and labels can be constructed symmetrically from the features of two objects. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students interested in minimalist syntax, the structure of questions, relative clauses, coordination, double object constructions and copular sentences.

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1139501348

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Lotteries in Public Life

A Reader

By: Vilhelm Aubert,Dael Wolfle,Dennis C. Mueller,Robert D. Tollison,Thomas D. Willett,Hank Greely,George Sher,Barbara Goodwin,Richard G. Mulgan,Lewis A. Kornhauser,Lawrence G. Sager,Torstein Eckhoff,Fredrik Engelstad,Willem K.B. Hofstee,John Broome,David Wasserman,Sigmund Knag

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Lotteries in Public Life

A Reader

Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and offers a critical introduction tying them together.

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