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Household Cooking Fuel Choice and Adoption of Improved Cookstoves in Developing Countries : A Review

Malla, Sunil - 2017

Improving access to affordable and reliable energy services for cooking is essential for developing countries in reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts hitherto caused by burning of traditional biomass. This paper reviews empirical studies that analyze choices of fuel and...

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More than Copper : Toward the Diversification and Stabilization of Zambian Exports

Brülhart, Marius - 2017

data show that, in international comparison, Zambian exports are exceptionally concentrated (on mining products). This … reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's exports are also characterized by a high level of churning of firms and … study of the Zambian export sector. The analysis concludes that one of the main policy levers for unleashing Zambia's full …

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Can Improved Biomass Cookstoves Contribute to REDD+ in Low-Income Countries? Evidence from a Controlled Cooking Test Trial with Randomized Behavioral Treatments

Beyene, Abebe - 2017

This paper provides field experiment?based evidence on the potential additional forest carbon sequestration that cleaner and more fuel-efficient cookstoves might generate. The paper focuses on the Mirt (meaning ?best?) cookstove, which is used to bake injera, the staple food in Ethiopia. The...

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A Conceptual Model of Incomplete Markets and the Consequences for Technology Adoption Policies in Ethiopia

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

In Africa, farmers have been reluctant to take up new varieties of staple crops developed to boost smallholder yields and rural incomes. Low fertilizer use is often mentioned as a proximate cause, but some believe the problem originates with incomplete input markets. As a remedy, African...

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Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms'Foreign Technology Choice?

Bas, Maria - 2017

This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms' decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. The empirical analysis is motivated by a simple theoretical framework of endogenous technology adoption, heterogeneous firms and imported inputs. The...

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ICT Use, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cirera, X. - 2017

: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Although adoption of information and …

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Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport

Ali, Rubaba - 2017

This paper addresses an old and recurring theme in development economics: the slow adoption of new technologies by farmers in many developing countries. The paper explores a somewhat novel link to explain this puzzle -- the link between market access and the incentives to adopt a new technology...

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Inflation, Liquidity and Innovation

Evers, Michael P. - 2019

This paper presents a simple model with financial frictions where inflation increases the cost faced by firms holding liquid assets to hedge risky production against expenditure shocks. Inflation tilts firms' technology choice away from innovative activities and toward safer but return-dominated...

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Technology Adoption and the Investment Climate : Firm-Level Evidence for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Correa, Paulo - 2016

The international diffusion of technology presents an opportunity for developing economies distant from the world technological frontier to reduce their income gap relative to advanced economies. It is therefore crucial to understand why, when faced with similar technological alternatives...

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Capital Adjustment and the Optimal Fuel Choice

Hyland, Marie - 2017

This paper analyzes the important, yet often ignored, link between capital adjustment and the choice of fuels used by manufacturing firms. A novel econometric framework, which explicitly incorporates heterogeneous fuel-using capital stocks in the estimation of optimal fuel choice, is applied to...

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