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Individual Income Redistribution and Publicly Provided Irrigation: The Columbia Basin Project
Author(s) -
Infanger Craig L.,
Butcher Walter R.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1239311
Subject(s) - irrigation , redistribution (election) , redistribution of income and wealth , structural basin , economics , public good , political science , geology , ecology , microeconomics , paleontology , politics , law , biology
Abstract The performance of publicly provided irrigation as a method of income redistribution is examined by applying fiscal incidence analysis to a representative area in the Columbia Basin Project. Results indicate the redistributional impact of public irrigation is clearly not in favor of lower income classes.