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<td>[stove] Moving toward social investment</td>
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<td>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:36:32 -0800</td>
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<td>Kirk Smith <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Our
article is now published in EPW, the most influential weekly
political commentary in India download the full version
from my website below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">At
the bottom here is the editors abstract, which does not
convey the full extent of our analysis. In particular, in
addition to discussing the merits of an opt-in scheme, we
also recommend a shift to a sliding income-based subsidy and
show how much greater penetration of LPG could be achieved
in the next decade by doing so. Finally, we make this
important point in the last para:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Indeed,
if the </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG
</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">expenditure
of the government can be targeted to poor people more
smartly, it should be termed social investment rather than
subsidy, in keeping with other public investments in
health and welfare, such as primary healthcare and
schools. The national health and social benefits could
also be immense.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Best/k</span><span
style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif"">Promoting
Clean and Affordable Cooking: </span><b><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Bold","serif"">Smarter
Subsidies for LPG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Alok Tripathi, Ambuj D Sagar,
Kirk R Smith, <i>Economic and Political Weekly</i>, 50(48):
81-84<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Abstract
The health effects of cooking with biomass and coal are now
well-recognised. Although more people use </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">,
the number of those using biomass and coal has remained
static for nearly 30 years. While </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG
</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">subsidies
have played an important role in expanding access to this
cooking fuel, directing the subsidies to the poorest and
the most vulnerable remains a fraught matter. This article
proposes that consumers opt in for the subsidy by
self-certifying that their household income is less than an
amount set by the government, instead of the opt-out
approach followed today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------<br>
Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD<br>
Professor of Global Environmental Health<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Graduate Group in Environmental
Health Sciences<br>
Director of the Global Health and Environment Program<br>
School of Public Health<br>
747 University Hall<br>
University of California<br>
Berkeley, California, 94720-7360<br>
phone 1-510-643-0793; fax 642-5815<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2015 2:40 PM, Kirk Smith wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More evidence of the large-scale shift in
awareness and associated actions taken by the Indian Ministry
of Petroleum and Natural Gas in conjunction with the national
oil companies to promote LPG more vigorously. Indian Oil,
which sells 50% of the LPG nationally, is leading the way by
challenging its local officers nationally to find new
distribution modes like this one. And the media is starting
to notice - excellent!/k<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-line-height-alt:18.75pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#393939">Karnataka
hamlet is India’s 1st smokeless village<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Seetha-Lakshmi-479238889.cms"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#336797">Seetha Lakshmi</span></a>,
TNN </span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white">|</span><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white"> Dec
4, 2015, 02.09AM IST</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3CA3FF"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="javascript:void(0);"><span
style="color:#336797">inShare</span></a></span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:#3CA3FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F"><img
id="articleimg1"
src="cid:part9.06070008.05070106@ilstu.edu" alt="gas"
border="0" height="178" width="217"></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Lakshmidevamma
in her clean kitchen in Vyachakurahalli village,
Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka, on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F">GAURIBIDANUR
(CHIKKABALLAPUR DISTRICT):<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Karnataka-hamlet-is-Indias-1st-smokeless-village/articleshow/50035075.cms"><span
style="color:#3F3F3F;text-decoration:none"> Until last
month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make
a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40
years now. </span></a>Not any more. Her kitchen is now
fitted with an LPG stove. Like 274 other households in
Vyachakurahalli of Gauribidanur taluk in Chikkaballapur
district.<br>
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Cooking with firewood is passe in Vyachakurahalli since all
households here have LPG. The Union petroleum ministry has
officially declared it as India's first smokeless village,
owing to its conversion from conventional fuel to LPG. "My
compliments to the residents of Vyachakurahalli which has
been declared as the first smokeless village in India,"
tweeted petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan.<br>
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Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) piloted the 'Mission Smokeless
village' project here, about 77km from Bengaluru. "The idea
was to redeem women's health," said Moti Sayi Vasudevan,
general manager (smokeless villages) at IOC. "Due to the
continuous inhalation of particles, women are more prone to
pneumonia due to usage of firewood as a fuel."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F;background:white">But
that was until last week. Now, the kitchens have got swanky
steel gas stoves and red cylinders. While a separate plank
has been built to accommodate the new gas stove in
Lakshmidevamma's kitchen, Saraswathamma is looking forward
to cooking these days. "I would frequently have bouts of
cough due to the continuous use of firewood," she said.
"This is the best thing that has happened to women in the
village."</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F"><br>
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<span style="background:white">In drought-hit Gauribidanur,
this recognition for clean fuel comes as a huge relief. As
Ratnamma put it: "No more black roofs and black lungs."</span><br>
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<strong><span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white">Learning
safe handling of LPG</span></strong><br>
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<span style="background:white">Gita Jayender sits with a
group of women in a small thatched roof kitchen, telling
them how to operate an LPG stove, how it is important to
switch off the regulator at the end of the day, how not to
leave utensils on the stove and go away, among other
things. Shrenik Enterprises on Railway Station Road is
buzzing with activity as entire families walk in to
purchase new LPG stoves. "We had to first conduct an
awareness campaign for villagers to tell them why it is
important to go smokeless. Drought is staring at them. Why
LPG, they asked," said Shrenik R J, who is spearheading
the smokeless movement in the village. The next project
will be taken up at Gandhian Dr H Narasimhaiah's
birthplace, Hosur, in Chikkaballapur district, he said.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD<br>
Professor of Global Environmental Health<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Graduate Group in Environmental
Health Sciences<br>
Director of the Global Health and Environment Program<br>
School of Public Health<br>
747 University Hall<br>
University of California<br>
Berkeley, California, 94720-7360<br>
phone 1-510-643-0793; fax 642-5815<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu">krksmith@berkeley.edu</a><br>
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