[Stoves] India LPG stoves approach Fwd: [stove] Giving it up

[Paul Anderson]

Stovers,

This came today from Kirk Smith's [stove] listserv, and is of interest 
to all Stovers.

Is this a Market Systems Approach?   What can be done on a similar note 
for biomass stoves?

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
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Subject: 	[stove] Giving it up
Date: 	Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:02:47 -0700
From: 	Kirk R. Smith <krksmith at berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: 	krksmith at berkeley.edu
To: 	Kirk R. Smith <Krksmith at berkeley.edu>




Today is Gandhi's Birthday, a national holiday in India.  See below how 
the Prime Minister is spending his day appropriately -- officially 
giving 5000 below-poverty-line families new LPG connections in 
Jharkhand, one of the poorest states of India (and gaining political 
credit by doing so).  The subsidies going with these connections were 
given up by middle-class households and transferred to the BPL families 
as part of the ambitions "GIve it Up" campaign underway since April So 
far, well more than 3 million households have given up their subsidies, 
amounting to something like a 200 million USD shift of resources from 
the rich* to the poor.   The BPL families are given a stove and their 
first cylinder from Social Responsibility funds by the major oil 
companies in the country.  The expectation is that 10 million households 
worth of subsidy will shift before long -- rising at 30,000 a day I was 
told yesterday.

This is a sea change in the landscape of clean fuel access and a great 
opportunity for creative research designs to evaluate the health and 
other benefits and to follow stacking and other behavior changes.

More soon, but happy Gandhiji's birthday/k

* Actually, I was told that very few of the truly rich have given up 
their subsidies -- it is mostly the middle class.  Sounds familiar -- it 
is the rich who have the highest expectations of public subsidy in my 
country too.

imggallery

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