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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971539
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Women in Forestry in India
de Melo, Martha - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746931
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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia
Cali, Massimiliano - 2019
ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … economy in Southeast Asia. The paper then compares these estimates with those of other preferential trade agreements that … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859523
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How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. The concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors such as health and education. It is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that policy makers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972944
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891714
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967904
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971193
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Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? The Case of the Nepal Community Forestry Program
Bluffstone, Randall A. - 2017
quality. Forest user group collective action is identified through membership in the Nepal Community Forestry Programme …
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Controlling Tropical Deforestation : An Analysis of Alternative Policies
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
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