Economics and politics of water resources development: Uda Walawe Irrigation Project, Sri Lanka

Francois Molle and Mary E. Renwick

No 44525, IWMI Research Reports from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: The Uda Walawe Irrigation and Resettlement Project (UWIRP) located in the Southern dry zone of Sri Lanka was initiated in the early 1950s. The original plan for the UWIRP was a highly ambitious social, economic and physical engineering project aimed at creating a modern, profitable agriculture sector. This report examines the history of water resources development and investment decisions for the UWIRP over a period of 50 years and uncovers underlying processes that shaped the evolution of the project and highlights the limitation of viewing development as a mere set of technical and social engineering endeavors.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: vi, 68p.
Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44525/files/Report87.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:iwmirr:44525

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.44525

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IWMI Research Reports from International Water Management Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().