[Stoves] Stove costs

[Jan Bianchi]

Dear A.D.

The questions about what the reference to $2 a day earning capacity really
means is totally fair. 

But if you were asking the question I was asking, what can people who are
poor in a country that may itself be poor, or at least parts of it, afford
to pay for a stove, I'm curious how you would describe them?

So far the answers that I have seen that suggest they can save no more than
20% of their daily income for about 10 days seems grounded in research.  


Jan

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[mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Anand Karve
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 8:04 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Stove costs

Dear Jan,
I keep hearing about the people earning less than US$2 per day. In a
lot of cases the income is shown to be low in statistics generated by
the Government of that particular country. Even a landless labourer in
a village in India would have some hens and a goat (or ducks and a
pig), the income from which never enters the Government statistics.
Another fact of life is that people's priorities differ from ours.
Some of us feel that the poor should have a clean latrine and a clean
kitchen, but the poor themselves often consider a cellphones in their
pocket and a t.v. in the house to be more important. Also the rate of
conversion of a dollar into the local currency is often manipulated by
the Government. 2 Dollars in a poor country has a relatively high
buying power in that country than in the US.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Jan Bianchi <janbianchi at comcast.net> wrote:
> Do any of you know of a list that compares different clean burning cook
> stoves not only by fuel type, efficiency and emissions, but also by price
> and the presence or lack thereof of subsidy?  I don’t see the latter
> information on most websites that describe different stoves.
>
>
>
> If there isn’t such a list, maybe we could work to put together one by
each
> of you sending a link that describes a stove and stating the price they
are
> currently being sold for in local communities, together with whether there
> is a subsidy and if so the amount?  I’d be happy to work with Erin to put
> together such a list from your answers.
>
>
>
> For people living on $2 a day or less, what for example would be
considered
> a low cost stove?  Middling?  High?
>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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