Hurdles in Fuel Choice in Rural India

Hurdles in Fuel Choice in Rural India
Author: Sanchita Daripa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783031716041

This Springer Brief presents a study that aims to identify the demand for cooking fuel at household level under different socio-economic conditions in rural India, with the goal of offering recommendations to reformulate and redesign energy policy. Households’ fuel choice and level of fuel consumption contribute to efforts toward sustainable development in emerging economy like India. In this context, it is important to identify the determining factors of fuel choice and consumption decision for cooking purpose at household level. Earlier studies mainly focused on fuel price and household income determining domestic fuel consumption, and insufficient attention has been given to other socioeconomic factors and decision processes for fuel choice. In this Brief, the double hurdle model is used to estimate the hurdles in fuel demand and its determinants at the household level in rural India.

Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development

Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development
Author: Supravat Bagli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2022-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811641811

This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies. Recognizing the existence of manifold challenges in achieving and sustaining economic development, it is divided into four sections—(i) The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade, Structural Transition and the Environment, (ii) Health and Standard of Living, (iii) Education, Human Capital and Evolution of the Employment Quality in India, and (iv) Banking and Credit: Access, Efficiency and Stability. The book brings together a right mix of senior and young economists who use cutting edge econometric techniques and/ or revisit a perennial question with much sharper focus and tools to unravel insights that are important and will inform tomorrow’s theorisation and policy making. The volume looks at important questions like spatial concentration of low infant and child health outcomes, trade liberalisation and export quality, intergenerational occupational mobility, multidimensional poverty incidence in rural India, robustness of the banking sector, to name a few. To do so, the contributions use novel and esoteric methods like machine learning, spatial econometrics, system GMM, quintile regression and counterfactual decomposition (QRCD), and so on. The rich collection holds importance for researchers and policy makers alike, and also for practitioners working in different developmental sectors..

Sustainable Development and Fuel Choice

Sustainable Development and Fuel Choice
Author: Pooja Rathore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

In India, households use more than one fuel for the fulfillment of energy requirements. So, they have to decide not only how much of a particular fuel to use, but also which fuel to choose. Energy is a necessity for a household. The demand for energy for cooking and lighting is increasing rapidly in India. Presently, India faces a dual challenge of providing clean fuel for the vast majority of households and also taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If India adopts a carbon tax to reduce the carbon emissions so as to affect the price of fossil fuels, then this carbon tax may create considerable effect on fuel choice of households. This study examines the effect of adopting a carbon tax on fuel choice of rural households in India. It uses 2009-10 National Sample Survey data covering over 59,119 households of rural areas. The study uses regression analysis and multinomial logit model to examine the effect of carbon tax on fuel choice of rural households. We find that with increase in income of households, the expenditure on modern fuels is increased. On the other hand with increase in price of modern fuels due to imposing a carbon tax, households are less likely to choose modern fuels than traditional fuels.

Universal Secondary Education in India

Universal Secondary Education in India
Author: Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811553661

This book offers a cutting-edge contribution on the importance of secondary education and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its growth in India. Secondary education, long neglected, faces countless challenges and will require tremendous financial resources, millions of additional trained teachers, and vast infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, libraries, ICT facilities, etc. The book examines these critical issues, with particular reference to the situation in India. It analyses the status quo of secondary education and discusses the strategies and approaches needed in order to universalize it. Including 20 chapters authored by eminent scholars in the field and from across the country, this book gathers the outcomes of a seminar organized by the Council for Social Development on Universalization of Secondary Education. The target audience includes policymakers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in the future of secondary education.

Fuelwood Studies in India

Fuelwood Studies in India
Author: Devendra Pandey
Publisher: CIFOR
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Fuelwood
ISBN: 9798764927

India's energy use dinamics. Review of sampling designs and methodologies for assessing consumption. Results of fuelwood studies: review and analysis.Trends. Identification of fuelwood hot spots. Policy responses to fuelwood issues. An approach to make fuelwood statistics reliable.

What Makes Rural Households Use Traditional Fuel? Empirical Evidence from India

What Makes Rural Households Use Traditional Fuel? Empirical Evidence from India
Author: Aditi Bhattacharyya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

This paper investigates the effects of different types of cooking fuels on the technical efficiency of household meal production in rural India. Rural households in India use for cooking either traditional fuels like firewood, dung, crop residue, and coal or modern fuels like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene, or a combination of both traditional and modern fuels. Using the stochastic frontier method, this paper estimates the influence of different types of cooking fuel and other household level characteristics on the technical efficiency of household meal production. We use a representative sample of 3880 rural households from the India Human Development Survey, 2008. Our results indicate that efficiency of meal preparation is significantly higher when households use either a traditional or a combination of both traditional and modern fuels than if they use modern fuels alone. Thus, results of this paper shed light on reasons other than cost behind the overwhelming popularity of traditional fuels in spite of their adverse health and environmental effects. This result is likely to be driven by the capacity constraint imposed by LPG and kerosene burners in cooking a large quantity of food at a time. Our study identifies use of traditional fuel as a viable option for reducing energy poverty in rural India, and recommends extensive policy for supplying improved wood burning cook stoves and afforestation to reduce the harmful pollution effects of open fire. The policy makers should also emphasize on provision of biogas plant and biomass gasifier along with afforestation. Further, our study recognizes the need for developing and supplying more efficient cooking stoves for modern fuels to promote higher use of clean energy sources. Our results also suggest policy intervention in improving women's education, household income, provision of ration card, and providing government support in acquiring improved cooking stoves for increasing efficiency of meal production at the household level.

Energy, Environment and Globalization

Energy, Environment and Globalization
Author: Anshuman Gupta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-08-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811393109

This book analyzes contemporary issues relating to energy, environment, and globalization in the Indian context. As a signatory to the Paris climate accord, India has reiterated its commitment to taking strong and positive steps toward climate change mitigation. However, as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is battling the effects of a steep rise in fossil fuel usage and pollution. Further, increasing globalization is leading to greater economic activity and production, resulting in additional energy use, which has a negative effect on the environment. The book argues that globalization need not have only a negative environmental impact; it can also have positive impact through the importation of environmentally sound technologies and implementing global compliance standards. The book is divided into three sections: The energy section discusses issues relating to the status of Indian natural gas market and the need for developing an efficient gas market in India; the economics and politics of sustainable energy in India; the challenges of thermal power and significance of clean thermal power generation in India; environmental and policy issues concerning energy use in urban India; the importance of energy use in developing Human Development Index (HDI); and issues relating to renewable energy in India. The environment section then examines topics such as the impact of global warming on local weather by examining the frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods, and their impact on farming activities in the Indian state of Odisha; the importance of according the economic value to environmentally significant things like national park , mangroves, etc. for sustainable development; the role of environmental accounting for ecological sustainability and ecotourism; and environmental concerns increasingly gaining traction among the corporate sector for their long-run benefits . Lastly, the third section addresses issues relating to the challenges and opportunities of globalization, such as the interface between globalization and environment; managing India’s business interest in proposing new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT); the challenges being faced by Indian exports and their revival; and making Indian SMEs competitive. As such, it is an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, practitioners and students in the field of energy, environment and trade economics.

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
Author: Prabhu Pingali
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030144097

This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India’s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.