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Household Forest Survey (NHFS) was implemented to close this data gap. Significant dependence of forest proximate HHs on forests …
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societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during …
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of supply and demand effects have contributed to this stagnation. The main supply side factors are rising household …
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indicate very low household willingness-to-pay for electricity access, and that willingness-to-pay diminishes as households …-grid solar technologies in programs to provide household electricity to the poor in rural areas …
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This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the "Mirt" biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively long period of three-and-a-half years, using stove use data collected at five points in time. The results show that 62 percent of the households surveyed still retained their...
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monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the monsoon shock and to quantify household vulnerability to it. The … season cultivation and, coincidently, where groundwater irrigates dry season cultivation. In these communities, household … size, area cultivated, agricultural and non-agricultural income, and household per capita food consumption measured nine …
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household energy expenditures and some indication for effects on health, domestic productivity, and on the environment. Since …
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between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia. After near complete stove adoption during an initial one-year randomized controlled trial, 60 percent of treatment households continued to use the improved stoves three-years...
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