Online Seminar
Tue, Dec 10
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Time & Location
Dec 10, 2024, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Online
About the event
This is the invitation to the Seminar, "Assessing the Impact of Income Decline on Household Clean Fuel Choice: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic," by Dr. Dina Azhgaliyeva from ADB and Prof. Kamalbek Karymshakov from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
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Meeting ID: 488 001 656 018
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Description of the event: Dr. Dina Azhgaliyeva, a senior economist (climate change) at the Asian Development Bank, and Prof. Kamalbek Karymshakov, Vice-Rector of the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University will present the findings from their paper "Assessing the Impact of Income Decline on Household Clean Fuel Choice: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic". The paper studies the impact of income decline during the coronavirus disease pandemic on energy consumption using household survey data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2019–2021. Households in the lowest (first) income group reacted to an income decline by consuming less coal, whereas those in the second quartile income group increased coal consumption. Spending more time at home during the pandemic in the context of falling income may have created incentives to switch to cheaper fuel.