Power Subsidies : A Reality Check on Subsidizing Power for Irrigation in India

After almost a decade of high-level efforts to bring electricity tariffs closer to the cost of supply, India has barely made a dent in the long-standing and increasingly uneconomical practice of subsidizing power for irrigation. Progress has been s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monari, Lucio
Format: Viewpoint
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11350