[Stoves] World Population and Daily Income

[Anand Karve]

Dear Crispin,
I have now retired from my job as head of Appropriate Rural Technology
Institute, but three years ago, while I still served this Institute, US$300
was what I used to get as my monthly salary. I paid income tax on this
income and belonged therefore to the richest 2% in the country. That is why
I said that  US$10 per day per family was quite a good income.
Yours
A.D.Karve
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

>  Dear AD
>
> Cecil is not here to comment so I will report that the value the average
> rural family gets from the environment is much more than the cash income of
> one or two dollars a day.
>
> From this flow two things: moving a rural family to an urban conurbation
> at the same salary, or even double, deepens their poverty; and the cost of
> stabilising a family in a city is 5 times the cost of stabilising them in a
> rural area.
>
>  Stabilising, he says, means a house, job, water, roads, school, health
> care and fuel.
>
> The reduction of 'poverty' to a metric of cash income can hide massive
> differences in real world living standard.
>
> So far I haven't seen a metric that is suitable for measuring 'living
> standard'.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>    *From: *Anand Karve
> *Sent: *Saturday, July 12, 2014 10:43
> *To: *Kevin; Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> *Reply To: *Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> *Subject: *Re: [Stoves] World Population and Daily Income
>
>  Dear Stovers,
> US$2 per day per person means about US$10 per family of 5. That is
> good income in any developing country.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Kevin <kchisholm at ca.inter.net> wrote:
> > This video Clip
> > http://www.youtube.com/embed/LPjzfGChGlE
> > is about US Immigration Policy.
> >
> > World population is about 7.2 billion people (
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population )
> >
> > The Video Clip states that about 3 billion people earn an average of LESS
> > than $2 per day. Expressed in different terms, 41.6% of the World
> Population
> > earns less than $2 per day.
> >
> > This brings up 2 interesting questions:
> >
> > 1: ===> What can biochar do for these people, and what would it have to
> > cost, to be affordable to them?
> > 2: ===> What kind of stoves do these people really need, and how much
> must
> > they be delivered for, in order for them to be a sensible investment?
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
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