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Building Resilience : Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development
World Bank - 2014
This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that … collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate and … Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The introduction provides an overview of the UNFCCC and also introduces key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560464
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World - Climate Services Operational Pathways : Pathways for Transforming Weather, Water, and Climate Services in Jamaica
World Bank - 2022
This report was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate services … national hydrological and meteorological services to develop, deliver, and strengthen hydrometeorological and climate services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545607
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World - Climate Services Operational Pathways : Pathways for Transforming Weather, Water, and Climate Services in Mozambique
World Bank - 2022
This study was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support in identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate … climate services. The outputs from the study comprise of one synthesis report and three country studies for Jamaica …
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World - Climate Services Operational Pathways : Pathways for Transforming Weather, Water, and Climate Services in Nepal
World Bank - 2021
This study was commissioned by climate investment funds (CIF's) E and L initiative to distill lessons from CIF's pilot … program on climate resilience (PPCR) support identifying, designing, and implementing hydrometeorological and climate services … national hydrological and meteorological agencies to develop, deliver, and strengthen hydrometeorological and climate services …
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On the unequal inequality of poor communities
Elbers, Chris (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523021
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Connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility
Lall, Somik V. - 2009
"How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activEities -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394137
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Nonlinear effects of altitude on child growth in Peru : a multilevel analysis
Gragnolati, Michele - 2006
"Growth at high altitude has been the object of many investigations after experimental studies on animals showed that hypoxia at high altitude slows growth. Many studies have also looked at the Andean populations and found different results. Even though a few studies find that individuals living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522237
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Half a world : regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522501
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Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China
Amiti, Mary - 2005
"The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic geography, focuses on market and supplier access within and outside the province of entry, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522635