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Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World
Arndt, Channing - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
have been taken, there remains a very long way to go addressing the interlinked development, adaptation, and mitigation … climate change argues for recipient country leadership in the implementation of co-ordinated development, adaptation, and … mitigation strategies based on predictable and long-term financial flows. Transparent and effective information systems in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366421
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Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision: A Consideration of Evidence from Southern Africa
Charman, A.J.E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
The paper considers the impact of livelihoods oriented agricultural service provision for smallholder farmers on gender relationships and food security. The paper contents that the democratization and liberalization of agricultural services towards participatory, bottom-up approaches, from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059870
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Cost and impact analysis of sea level rise on coastal Vietnam
Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The s
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165745
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Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid
Huang, Jikun - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Agricultural development is facing great challenges in meeting global food security and is expected to face even greater difficulties under climate change. The overall goal of this paper is to examine how foreign aid in particular can be used to achieve t
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643226
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The Challenges of Global Environmental Change for Urban Africa
Simon, David - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Cities-especially those with substantial poor populations-will face increasingly severe challenges in tackling the impacts of global environmental change (GEC). As economic dynamos and increasingly important population concentrations, cities both contribu
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493688
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Climate Change Compounding Risks in North Africa
Drine, Imed - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
The impact of climate change on agriculture and poor groups’ livelihoods are one of the greatest potential threats to development and a key challenge in climate change agenda. The North Africa region is particularly vulnerable to climate change due to geographic and ecological features. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009140859
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Adaptation to climate variability and change in Uganda: Are there gender differences across households?
Guloba, Madina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076154
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Climate change impacts on Moroccan agriculture and the whole economy: An analysis of the impacts of the Plan Maroc Vert in Morocco
Ouraich, Ismail; Tyner, Wallace E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The paper provides estimates of economic impacts of climate change, compares these with historical impacts of drought spells, and estimates the extent to which the current Moroccan agricultural development and investment strategy, the Plan Maroc Vert, hel
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076161
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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? A worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey
Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the interaction of globalization through trade liberalization and climate change, globally with a special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade liberalizat
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076167
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Food Marketing Reconsidered. An Assessment of the Liberalization of Food Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Seppala, P - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997
The liberalization of food marketing has been implemented as part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this sutdy we assess (i) the aims of reform policy, (ii) the implementation of specific reform measures, (iii) the politics of reform, and (iv) the impacts of reform.
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