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New Uses for Global Forecasts
World Bank - 2013
In accordance with the goals of the innovation grant, World Bank staff undertook a study tour to Turkey to observe Turkey's innovative system to deliver farmer-focused weather alerts by cell phone. The regional priority on climate change adaptation highlights an adaptation mechanism that has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557435
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Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries : a critical review and new evidence
Delavande, Adeline - 2009
"The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health, education, finance, migration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394118
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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
L. Cropper, Maureen - 2009
"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394126
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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2009
demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394144
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394177
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Disease and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jamison, Dean T. (contributor) - 2006 - 2nd ed
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522331
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia
Walque, Damien de - 2004
contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522889
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Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households
Beegle, Kathleen - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523373