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Theoretical Implications of Renewable Energy using Improved Cooking Stoves for Rural Households
Abrar ul haq, Muhammad - 2020
Majority of the rural people from developing countries are dependent on agriculture sector and the major source of energy is traditional biomass. Due to radical climate changes, their dependency on traditional biomass and agriculture sector increases their vulnerability and deteriorates the...
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Access to modern energy : a review of barriers, drivers and impacts
Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016 - This version: 5 July 2016
recent strand of research, trying to fill these gaps. We focus on the demand-side and household perspective. Our main …
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Effects of USB port access on advanced cookstove adoption
Wilson, Daniel; Monga, Meenakshi; Saksena, Abhinav; … - In: Development engineering 3 (2018), pp. 209-217
significant environmental health risk factor: household air pollution is estimated to cause 3-4 million premature deaths per year …
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Improved cooking stoves that end up in smoke?
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2012
More than 2.7 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass for cooking with profound implications for their well-being. Two million people die every year due to cooking related smoke emissions - more than are killed by malaria. In recent years, an international movement has gained...
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Explaining Cross-Country Productivity Differences in Retail Trade
Lagakos, David - 2015
that the adoption of modern retail technologies is optimal only when household ownership of complementary durable goods …
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A bridge to clean cooking? : the cost-effectiveness of energy-efficient biomass stoves in rural Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Jeuland, Marc; Lenz, Luciane; Ndiaye, … - 2023
kostengünstigen, lokal produzierten Herd, der auf Brennstoffeinsparung ausgelegt ist, mit einem teuren, importierten Herd, der sich im …
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Have Natural Disasters Become Deadlier?
Gaiha, Raghav - 2013
The present study seeks to build on earlier work by identifying the factors associated with the frequency of natural disasters and the resulting mortality. Drawing together the main findings, some observations are made from a policy perspective to focus on key elements of a disaster reduction...
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Household Food Budget Inflation as an Aid to Policy Formulation
Mishra, Jasaswini - 2015
important that the impact of food inflation on household budgets is monitored and used as a test or trigger to pass any proposed … policy or administrative measures.A model has been developed to evaluate the impact of Food Price Inflation on household … Deciles of Mumbai households with particular focus on the poorer sections/deciles. An index of the household food budget is …
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Impacts of the sustainable livelihood program's microenterprise development assistance with seed capital fund on poor households in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Corpus, … - 2020
household used as startup capital or as additional capital for microenterprise. The microenterprise may be run individually or … impacts on labor supply, but imprecisely estimated null impacts on household income, expenditure, savings, and capital … household welfare. These include a substantial business closure rate, lack of participation among group members in business …
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Output-Based Aid in Colombia : Connecting Poor Households to Natural Gas Service
Mandri-Perrott, Cledan; Patella, Dominic - 2012
Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia.compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally damaging. But even though gas is more affordable, connection fees can put the cost of...
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