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We examine the extent to which economic development reduces both a country's disaster risk and its social vulnerability … incomes generally reduce a country's social vulnerability to such disasters. We additionally find that underlying political … to climate-related disasters. Global climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme …
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. 2000) are found to contribute significantly to explaining the adaptive response of celiacs. Self-assessed vulnerability and …
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This study is primarily intended to examine the dynamics and determinants of rural household poverty and vulnerability …, the trend has been found to vary across villages for both poverty and vulnerability measures. Besides, poverty … poverty appear to impact on vulnerability to poverty differently. Therefore, strategies aimed at reducing poverty should …
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term food deficiency and reducing vulnerability but limited in contributing to longer lasting impact. The results also …
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In this paper we examine the impact of commodity price volatility on nutritional attainment of households at the nutritional poverty line in Bangladesh. We focus on the first two moments of the distribution of nutrition and consider the differential impacts across socio-economic groups within...
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frames the study of the vulnerability of Latinos with respect to economic success. Racial profiling is a measure of the …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 10/17/08.
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This paper examines the validity of anti-trade arguments that are based on the absence of technological spillovers. Results of a pooled cross-section time-series analysis for developing countries fail to support the existence of technological spillovers. Findings of learning-by-doing effects...
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This paper measures the impact of year one of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rural Business Development program …
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