Willingness to pay for the water supply service in Cape Verde – how far can it go?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1721-1734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Marques ◽  
Pedro Carvalho ◽  
João Pires ◽  
Ana Fontainhas
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
African Country ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Current Water ◽  
Levels Of Service ◽  
Water Supply Services

Cape Verde is an African country where consumers pay one of the highest tariffs for water supply services in the world. However, the current levels of service coverage and quality are still far from adequate, as acknowledged by local authorities and international agencies. Thus, an assessment of how much Cape Verdean households are willing to pay (WTP) for service improvements is a fundamental ingredient informing sector policy formulation going forward. This is the focus of this study. Valuation functions were estimated using suitable estimation methods. The results show that, taking into consideration their current levels of expenditure with this service, households would in general not be WTP more for significant improvements in their current water supply services, and that household income and the age of the head of the household both have significant effects on their WTP.

scholarly journals Evaluation of willingness to pay toward improving water supply services in Sebeta town, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hosea Mutanda Eridadi ◽  
Inagaki Yoshihiko ◽  
Esayas Alemayehu ◽  
Moses Kiwanuka
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Current Water ◽  
Average Current ◽  
Binary Logistic Model ◽  
Water Supply Services

Abstract Sebeta town is one of the rapidly growing towns in Ethiopia. Its closeness to Addis Ababa city has attracted industrial, urban development, and population growth. This development has created problems with drinking water shortages in the community. This study aimed at determining the household's willingness to pay (WTP) amount toward improving water supply services and analyzing the influencing factors of WTP. A contingent valuation (CV) technique was applied in quantifying the households' WTP and the influencing factors toward the program. The field observations, key informant interviews, and household questionnaire interviews from 250 respondents out of the targeted 280 were employed in collecting field data. Results from CV revealed that 66% of the households were WTP toward improving the water supply services beyond their current monthly water bills. Households were WTP about 20 Ethiopian Birr (ETB) above the average current water bill of 161 ETB. The binary logistic model results statistically demonstrated that independent variables of gender, age, marital status, education level, years in Sebeta, and average monthly income were significantly influencing the household's WTP at p = 0.01 and 0.05. This study provides vital hints for further research and baseline information for local administration and communities about the water supply in the area and holistic appropriation of water tariffs in line with government policy.

scholarly journals Cabo Verde e Brasil: A chave do Atlantico Sul

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danillo Avellar Bragança
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
African Country ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Analytical Description ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Cabo Verde ◽  
The Relationship

O seguinte texto é um exercício de descrição analítica sobre Cabo Verde e as relações já existentes entre o país africano e o Brasil, em suas múltiplas continuações. O Atlântico Sul é área-chave para a projeção internacional brasileira e as relações com os países lindeiros em África têm sido alvo de políticas públicas importantes, mas são feitas de forma intermitente. Nesse momento, é possível dizer que há certa retração na aproximação do Brasil e dos países africanos parceiros da costa atlântica. Assim, a ideia é usar o exemplo cabo-verdiano para explorar as potencialidades brasileiras na região, além de trazer luz à sua história e trajetória política recente, pouco conhecida da maior parte do público acadêmico brasileiro.Palavras-chave: Cabo Verde; política externa brasileira; diplomacia; geopolítica; África.ABSTRACTThe following text is an analytical description exercise on Cape Verde and the relationship between the African country and Brazil, in its multiple continuations. The South Atlantic is key area for Brazilian international projection and relations with the nearby countries in Africa have been the target of important public policies, but are made intermittently. At this point, it is possible to say that there is a certain retraction in the approximation of Brazil and the African countries on the Atlantic coast. Thus, the idea is to use the Cape Verdean example to explore the Brazilian potentialities in the region, and bring light to its recent history and political trajectory, little known to most of the Brazilian academic public.Keywords: Cape Verde; Brazilian foreign policy; diplomacy; geopolitics; Africa.Recebido em: 14 jun. 2019 | Aceito em: 30 nov. 2019

scholarly journals Language Ideologies and Transnational Migration: A Study of Cape Verdeans in Galicia

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Nicola Bermingham
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Symbolic Resource

Changes to the global infrastructure have contributed to the growing (linguistic) diversity of large metropolises. However, there have been calls from scholars to explore “emerging superdiversity” (DePalma and Pérez-Caramés 2018) in peripheral regions in order to fully understand the complexities and nuances of the sociolinguistics of globalisation (Wang et al. 2014; Pietikäinen et al. 2016). This article, therefore, explores language ideologies among a purposive sample of five young adults of Cape Verdean origin living in the peripheral region of Galicia, Spain, and draws on interview data to examine the ways in which multilingual migrants engage with the language varieties in their linguistic repertoire. In studying immigration from a former African colony to a bilingual European context, we can see how language ideologies from the migrant community are reflected in local ones. The sociolinguistic dynamics of Cape Verde and Galicia share many similarities: both contexts are officially bilingual (Galician and Spanish in Galicia, Kriolu and Portuguese in Cape Verde), and questions regarding the hierarchisation of languages remain pertinent in both cases. The ideologies about the value and prestige of (minority) languages that Cape Verdean migrants arrive with are thus accommodated by local linguistic ideologies in Galicia, a region which has a history of linguistic minoritisation. This has important implications for the ways in which language, as a symbolic resource, is mobilised by migrants in contexts of transnational migration. The findings of this study show how migrants are key actors in (re)shaping the linguistic dynamics of their host society and how, through their practices and discourses, they challenge long-standing assumptions about language, identity and linguistic legitimacy, and call into question ethno-linguistic boundaries.

Mimesis and the Historical Imagination: (Re)Staging History in Cape Verde, West Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA S. MCMAHON
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Local History ◽  
West African ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Global Performance ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

This article examines what is at stake when performers and playwright critically transfigure oral histories when staging them theatrically. Representations of race and colonial history are integral to a nation's conception of its own cultural identity. These issues are at the forefront of many theatre productions in Cape Verde, an intensely creolized West African nation whose islands bear traces of the Europeans and Africans who have commingled there for centuries. The article examines two performances rooted in Cape Verdean history that challenge existing theoretical paradigms for the mimetic relationship between actors and the historical personae they portray onstage. Proposing the concept of the ‘historical imagination’, it explores how theatre artists self-consciously alter the local history they circulate to an international theatre festival stage and, concomitantly, how the theatre festival context and media coverage profoundly impact how national history is told within a global performance arena.

scholarly journals Private Actors, Public Goods and Responsibility for the Right to Water in International Investment Law: An Analysis of Urbaser v. Argentina

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Edward Guntrip
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
International Investment Law ◽  
Investment Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Water Supply Services

International investment law balances public and private interests within the broader framework of international law. Consequently, when water supply services, which constitute a public good, are privatized and operated by foreign investors, questions arise regarding whether foreign investors could be held responsible for the right to water under international law. This article considers how the tribunal in Urbaser v. Argentina allocated responsibility for compliance with the right to water between the host State and the foreign investor when resolving a dispute over privatized water services. It highlights how the tribunal in Urbaser v. Argentina supports different understandings of public and private based on whether the human rights obligation is framed in terms of the duty to respect or protect. The article argues that the tribunal’s rationale overcomplicates the process of allocating responsibility for violations of the human right to water when water supply services have been privatized.

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