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Fuelwood Consumption and Forest Degradation: A Household Model for Domestic Energy Substitution in Rural India [Rajasthan]
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Paper examines domestic energy supply and demand in Northwest India. A household model is set up to analyse the links between forest scarcity and household energy consumption, focusing on the substitution of fuels from the forests and commons and the private domain. The model is estimated using recently collected data from villages bordering Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.DocumentNew Institutional Economics: A Survey of Property Rights and Natural Resource Management [case study from Rajasthan]
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998In this paper, the results of a recent case study of forest conservation and management in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India are reported. Changes in land use, grazing, household fuelwood collection and inadequate management institutions are identified as key factors causing forest degradation.DocumentTrade Bans and Wildlife Conservation: The Case of African Elephant Ivory
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Trade bans are imposed on undesirable items such as endangered species, narcotics, polluting manufactures and stolen goods. This paper argues that under a trade ban production of the banned good may increase when enforcement is imperfect.DocumentModelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household economy and the interactions between them.DocumentAfrica's export structure in a comparative perspective
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998Africa's exports are concentrated on primary products, mainly unprocessed, in sharp contrast to the exports of East Asia, which consist predominantly of manufactures.DocumentThe Rhino and Tiger Product Labeling Act (H.R. 2801) and The Re-Authorization of the Rhino and Tiger Conservation Act (H.R. 3113): discussion
Wildlife Conservation Society, 1998Testimony to US Congress on justification of legal action to restrict trade in rhino and tiger productsDocumentPromoting Better Logging Practices in Tropical Forests: A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Regulations
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Suggestions to promote better logging practices in tropical forests include longer concession agreements, renewability provisions, and the use of performance bonds. Tests the empirical significance of these recommendations by using a simulation model developed with an unusually large data set from a lowland tropical rain forest in Peninsular Malaysia.DocumentSchooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Investigates the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates.DocumentFighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure of landholding: farm holdings generally become smaller as an ever-increasing number of households enter the agricultural work force and seek to derive their livelihood from thDocumentForest Degradation, Household Resource Use and Management Institutions: A Case Study from India
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998Analyses forest conservation and management, based on a recent case study in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. A number of commonly made hypotheses are questioned.Pages