Challenges in Assessing the Costs of Household Cooking Energy in Lower-Income Countries
The paper discusses challenges in analyzing the costs of household cooking methods (fuels and associated stove technologies) in lower-income countries, and sources of divergence between observed and true social costs. The challenges in assessing so...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655171490015453059/Challenges-in-assessing-the-costs-of-household-cooking-energy-in-lower-income-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26349 |
| Summary: | The paper discusses challenges in
analyzing the costs of household cooking methods (fuels and
associated stove technologies) in lower-income countries,
and sources of divergence between observed and true social
costs. The challenges in assessing social costs include
valuation of household time, impacts of credit constraints
on stove selection, preferences for stove characteristics,
and the magnitude of health and environmental externalities.
All these influences on cost require consideration of the
local context. |
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