Regional impact of water resource investments in an developing area
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Abstract
Regional development and industrialization patterns are investigated and related via regression analysis to water resource investments for the island of Puerto Rico. Although results of this study indicate such investments have little immediate or short‐term impact, significant relationships and variations in regional responses appear over longer time periods. This is shown by applying a variation of Zellner's method of performing seemingly unrelated regressions jointly. By this method, subsets of parameter coefficients of specific economic variables were restricted across regional equations while unrestricted coefficients were interpreted as explaining systematic regional variations in response to public investment. Regional differences, obtained by using this method, are frequently neglected when simply examining the overall development process. Among the more interesting results in terms of policy implications is the apparent significant relationship, over the period considered, between changes in the distribution of income and the pattern of water resource development.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Regional impact of water resource investments in an developing area |
| Series title | Journal of the American Water Resources Association |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1975.tb00661.x |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 1975 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Water Resources Association |
| Contributing office(s) | Eastern Energy Resources Science Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 69 |
| Last page | 76 |
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