Felipe Amaya Salazar

Felipe Amaya Salazar
Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Felipe Amaya Salazar is an associate consultant in Dalberg Global Development Advisors. Most recently, he was part of a team that helped an aid agency improve public-private partnerships’ enduring results; he also advised another aid agency on a strategy to attract private investment to a Latin American country. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de los Andes and has completed studies on finance and development economics in London School of Economics and Tilburg University.

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Tuesday
March 7
2017

Scott Strand / Felipe Amaya Salazar

A Simple, Painless Way Governments Can Help the Poor and the Environment

In Haiti there’s a 15 percent tariff and tax on clean cookstoves. Based on elasticity of demand, Dalberg projects that if improved cookstoves’ taxes and tariffs were eliminated, their annual sales would increase by 13 percent, from 185,000 to 209,000. This in turn would mitigate costs associated with health and environment consequences of traditional cooking techniques.

Categories
Environment, Health Care

Tags
clean cooking, climate health, public health

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