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Stovers,<br>
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This came today from Kirk Smith's [stove] listserv, and is of
interest to all Stovers.<br>
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Is this a Market Systems Approach? What can be done on a similar
note for biomass stoves?<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
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<td>[stove] Giving it up</td>
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<td>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:02:47 -0700</td>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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More soon, but happy Gandhiji's birthday/k<br>
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* 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.<br>
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<img src="cid:part1.05030805.06070509@ilstu.edu" alt="imggallery"
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