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The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in … intense natural disasters. The economies along coastal areas in South, Southeast (for example the Philippines), and East Asia … urgent need for economies not only to adapt their exposure and capacity in relation to natural disasters, but also to …
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This paper attempts to understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted by households living in these areas to hedge against the risks. The study area (districts of eastern...
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The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the most recent scientific and demographic information, they estimate the future impact of climate...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
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Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham …
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This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of war with particular reference …€˜patriotic’ tendency to get support for their own agenda. [CCMG Working paper]. URL:[http://jmi.ac.in/upload/menuupload/Aradhana___WAR …
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A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …
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war on Afghanistan since 2001. …
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the war. Yet, attitudes and behaviors do not change at the moment of declaration of peace. The aim of this background … war. [FES] …
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