| Budget Amount *help |
¥8,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,950,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project investigated how environmentally-friendly technologies diffuse in less developed countries, using firm-level data from Indonesia and Mongolia and household-level data from Ethiopia. We found that energy-saving technologies spill overs from foreign-owned firms to locally-owned firms and that the structure of social networks substantially affects diffusion of agricultural technologies. These results generate policy implications. For example, attracting foreign direct investment with high energy-saving technologies and extension systems which do not rely on extension agents but utilize existing social networks would contribute to diffusion of environmental technologies to less developed countries.
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