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Forest Carbon Supply in Nepal : Evidence from a Choice Experiment

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2018

This paper uses a choice experiment conducted in Nepal during 2013 to estimate household-level willingness to participate in a village-level program under the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation initiative requiring reductions in fuelwood collection, as a function of the...

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Environment and Development : Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon

Andree, Bo Pieter Johannes - 2019

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...

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Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

A spatial econometric model is used to link road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the...

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Can Improved Biomass Cookstoves Contribute to REDD+ in Low-Income Countries? Evidence from a Controlled Cooking Test Trial with Randomized Behavioral Treatments

Beyene, Abebe - 2017

This paper provides field experiment?based evidence on the potential additional forest carbon sequestration that cleaner and more fuel-efficient cookstoves might generate. The paper focuses on the Mirt (meaning ?best?) cookstove, which is used to bake injera, the staple food in Ethiopia. The...

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Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? The Case of the Nepal Community Forestry Program

Bluffstone, Randall A. - 2017

This paper estimate the effects of collective action in Nepal?s community forests on four ecological measures of forest quality. Forest user group collective action is identified through membership in the Nepal Community Forestry Programme, pending membership in the program, and existence of a...

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Community Managed Forest Groups and Preferences for REDD Contract Attributes : A Choice Experiment Survey of Communities in Nepal

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2017

A significant portion of the world?s forests that are eligible for Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD , payments are community managed forests. However, there is little knowledge about preferences of households living in community managed forests for REDD...

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Controlling Tropical Deforestation : An Analysis of Alternative Policies

Glewwe, Paul - 2017

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Women in Forestry in India

de Melo, Martha - 2017

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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa

Addison, Tony - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …

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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

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