The Process and Performance of Decentralization of River Basin Resource Management: A Global Analysis Ariel Dinar, The World Bank Karin Kemper, The World Bank William Blomquist, Indiana University Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Yale University Selected Paper for Presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach California, July 23-26, 2006 Copyright 2006 by Ariel Dinar, Karin Kemper, William Blomquist and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies.