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Africa has considerable reserves of fossil fuels of all kinds: oil, coal and natural gas. Much of this resource is either utilised outside of Africa or some of the resource is not developed at all for…
8 January 2012 | Discussion Paper | EthiopiaThis study looked into tree-growing behavior of rural households in Ethiopia. With data collected at household and parcel levels from the four major regions of Ethiopia, we analyzed the decision to…
30 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | EthiopiaThis study identifies the determinants of households’ willingness to pay for an improvement in solid waste-collection services based on 381 households in Kampala. Employing the double-bounded…
30 December 2011 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaIncomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Environmental Services in China
This paper uses data from a 2003 rural survey to examine the determinants of household provision of environmental services under China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), the largest payment for…
25 December 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWith contingent valuation, both the goods being valued and the payment vehicles used to value them are mostly hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of experience…
22 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | SwedenState-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) in northeast China and Inner Mongolia play important roles both in timber production and in the maintenance of ecological security. However, since the late 1970s…
22 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaResearchers using stated preference (SP) techniques have increasingly come to rely on what we call "hypothetical baselines". By this we mean that respondents are provided with a description of a…
22 December 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | SwedenThe study attempts to investigate the link between food security and nonfarm employment using the survey data collected from 151 randomly selected households from six villages of Woreda Gantafeshum…
20 December 2011 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThe article analyses the effects of changes in land cover and land use changes together with population changes on the livelihood of rural households, and also farming households' responses to these…
17 December 2011 | Peer Reviewed | EthiopiaThis is a chapter in a book entitled "Fuel Tax and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy" edited by Thomas Sterner, 2011. Some taxes are…
15 December 2011 | Book Chapter | Ethiopia