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Asia's transition to net zero : opportunities and challenges in agriculture
Panda, Architesh; Yamano, Takashi - 2023
Asia is home to 60% of the world's population, 52% of global agricultural production, and 43% of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368405
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Nowcasting from space : impact of tropical cyclones on Fiji's agriculture
Noy, Ilan; Blanc, Elodie; Pundit, Madhavi; Uher, Tomas - 2023
The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the compounding impact of various hazard phenomena (e.g., wind and rainfall associated with tropical storms). The alternative, traditionally, has been a team of experts sent to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013533176
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Testing the link between accessible export finance and insurance, and regional trade growth in Africa and Asia : a role for regional Export Credit and Investment Guarantee Agency (...
Brunner, Hans-Peter - 2015
market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281268
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South-South trade : an Asian perspective
Athukorala, Premachandra - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to inform the contemporary policy debate on promoting trade among developing countries (South-South trade) by analyzing trade patterns of developing Asian economies from a comparative global perspective. The paper begins with a stage-setting historical overview of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301856
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Determinants of urbanization
Hofman, Anett; Wan, Guangha - 2013
In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous literature has largely neglected the issue in favor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781149
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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder
Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030663
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New evidence on the gender wage gap in Indonesia
Taniguchi, Kiyoshi; Tuwo, Alika - 2014
Indonesia has been experiencing impressive economic growth and rapid urbanization in recent years. However, urbanization could affect income inequality through people's movement from rural to urban areas. Using the 2010 National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) in Indonesia, this study examines how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463700
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Towards a harmonious countryside : rural development survey results of the People's Republic of China
Lin, Tun - 2010
The construction of a New Socialist Countryside (NSC) is among the highlights in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). The NSC aims to accelerate the development and modernization of the agricultural and rural economy in order to close the widening rural-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658795
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Female labor force participation in Asia : Indonesia country study
Schaner, Simone; Das, Smita - 2016
This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421778
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Climate-related disasters in Asia and the Pacific
Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Perez, Rosa T. - 2013
as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781147