Paper submitted for PIDE Conference in 2011: Efficiency of Higher Education Institutions. Attached Below. This is a DEA analysis of efficiency of HEI's. For lectures on DEA, see my website: asadzaman.net
THESIS on Water Scarcity:
Growing food demand is putting downward pressure on water resources in Pakistan as per capita water availability has decreased from 5000 m3 to 1200 m3 in the year 2000 and expected to decrease to 850 m3 by the year 2025 (State of Environment Report, 2005).
Efficient management of scarce water resource is indispensible with growing food demand, as its basic source more or less remains the same over time. Virtual water flow explores different scenario for stressed water resources. In context of saving scarce water resources, it is necessary that imports of a deficit-water region dominated by water intensive products in comparative advantage tradition of economic thought (Hassan Hakimian, 2003). My research study is aimed at quantifying virtual water flows between Pakistani provinces by putting them in context of water availability.
References
1. Hakimian, H., (2003). Water Scarcity and Food Imports: An Empirical Investigation of the ‘Virtual Water’ Hypothesis in the MENA Region. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 71-85.
2. State of the Environment Report (Draft, 2005) Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan.