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Fuel for the Clean Energy Debate – A Study of Fuelwood Collection and Purchase in Rural India
MISHRA, ARABINDA - eSocialSciences - 2009
In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood use remains high in the countryside. To help find a solution to this challenge, the study in...
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Determinants of Fuelwood Use in Rural Orissa: Implications for Energy Transition
MISHRA, ARABINDA - eSocialSciences - 2009
This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase. The study examines the theory linking households’ labour allocation decisions to choice of fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967089
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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945341
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945390
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Unbelievable but True — Improved Cook-stoves are not Helpful in Reducing Firewood Demand in Nepal
Nepal, Mani; Nepal, Apsara; Grimsrud, Kristine - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10].
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Civil Liberties, an African perspective
Yacoob, Z.M. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The approach of the PUCL to civil liberties issues underlines a crucial understanding: an understanding which has as its base the recognition of the fundamental truth that civil liberties is not a matter of theory alone, but can be meaningfully addressed only as a practical issue. Indeed the...
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Definitional and Statistical Issues Relating to Workers in Informal Employment
Bhalla, Sheila - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025324
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, it is shown that a majority of students spend years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543506
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Worldwide Incidence of Malaria in 2009: Estimates, Time Trends, and a Critique of Methods
Cibulskis, Richard E; Aregawi, Maru; Williams, Ryan; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevalence, and on routine case reports compiled by health ministries. A critique of both methods are...
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543096