Addressing the policy-implementation gaps in water services: the key role of meso-institutions

Claude Ménard (), Alejandro Jimenez and Hakan Tropp
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Claude Ménard: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP1 UFR02 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - École d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Alejandro Jimenez: SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute
Hakan Tropp: SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute

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Abstract: This paper reviews sources of misalignment between the institutional arrangements, incentives and resources mobilized in water policies. It is argued that the resulting policy gaps develop mainly at the implementation phase and are deeply connected to flaws in the ‘meso-institutions' linking both the macro-level, at which general rules are established through laws and customs, and the micro-level, at which actors operate within the domain thus delineated. It is suggested that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Principles on Water Governance (2015) are primarily and rightly targeting these flaws. The discussion is substantiated with numerous examples, mainly from developing countries.

Keywords: Governance; Institutions; Transaction cots; Water policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Water International, 2018, 43 (1), pp.13-33. ⟨10.1080/02508060.2017.1405696⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2017.1405696

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