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Maintenance matters — in cookstoves and other global health interventions

lborkowski | January 3, 2013

While we’re on vacation, we’re re-posting content from last year. This post was originally published on May 8, 2012. By Liz Borkowski At Wonkblog, Brad Plumer highlights a new NBER paper that’s disappointing to those who hoped that distributing cleaner cookstoves in India and other countries would be an easy way to improve respiratory health and help slow global warming. Many low-cost, traditional cookstoves belch soot, which is bad for the lungs of people who spend long hours near the stoves and for the ice that melts more quickly when soot particles settle on it. Cleaner stoves would…

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