Dear A.D. The questions about what the reference to $2 a day earning capacity really means is totally fair.
But if you were asking the question I was asking, what can people who are poor in a country that may itself be poor, or at least parts of it, afford to pay for a stove, I'm curious how you would describe them? So far the answers that I have seen that suggest they can save no more than 20% of their daily income for about 10 days seems grounded in research. Jan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anand Karve Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 8:04 PM To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves Subject: Re: [Stoves] Stove costs Dear Jan, I keep hearing about the people earning less than US$2 per day. In a lot of cases the income is shown to be low in statistics generated by the Government of that particular country. Even a landless labourer in a village in India would have some hens and a goat (or ducks and a pig), the income from which never enters the Government statistics. Another fact of life is that people's priorities differ from ours. Some of us feel that the poor should have a clean latrine and a clean kitchen, but the poor themselves often consider a cellphones in their pocket and a t.v. in the house to be more important. Also the rate of conversion of a dollar into the local currency is often manipulated by the Government. 2 Dollars in a poor country has a relatively high buying power in that country than in the US. Yours A.D.Karve On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Jan Bianchi <[email protected]> wrote: > Do any of you know of a list that compares different clean burning cook > stoves not only by fuel type, efficiency and emissions, but also by price > and the presence or lack thereof of subsidy? I dont see the latter > information on most websites that describe different stoves. > > > > If there isnt such a list, maybe we could work to put together one by each > of you sending a link that describes a stove and stating the price they are > currently being sold for in local communities, together with whether there > is a subsidy and if so the amount? Id be happy to work with Erin to put > together such a list from your answers. > > > > For people living on $2 a day or less, what for example would be considered > a low cost stove? Middling? High? > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists .org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists .org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
