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Can the Paris Deal Boost SDGs Achievement? An Assessment of Climate Mitigation Co-Benefits or Side-Effects on Poverty and Inequality
Campagnolo, Lorenza - 2017
), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation … contributions, stated in the NDCs, is projected to slow down the effort to reduce poverty by 2030 ( 2% of the population below the …
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Natural Disasters and Demand for Redistribution : Lessons from an Earthquake
Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2020
The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random “luck” rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds : Form and Function in the 21st Century
Clark, Gordon L. - 2010
As representatives of nation-states in global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) share a common form and many functions. Arguably their form and functions owe as much to a shared (global) moment of institutional formation as they owe their form and functions to the hegemony of...
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Reflections on the Current Debate on How to Link Flood Insurance and Disaster Risk Reduction in the European Union
Surminski, S. - 2015
Flood insurance differs widely in scope and form across Europe. Against the backdrop of rising flood losses a debate about the role of EU policy in shaping the future of this compensation tool is led by policy makers and industry. In this paper we investigate if and how current EU policies...
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Partnerships for Affordable and Equitable Disaster Insurance
Mysiak, Jaroslav - 2015
Extreme events are becoming more frequent and intense, inflating the economic damages and social hardship set-off by natural catastrophes. Amidst budgetary cuts, there is a growing concern on societies' ability to design solvent disaster recovery strategies, while addressing equity and...
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The Neoliberal Myth in Latin America : The Cases of Mexico and Argentina in the '90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
describing how these policies affected the most important macroeconomic indexes, with special emphasis on Argentina and Mexico … failed to reduce poverty and unemployment, and was unable to guarantee a fair distribution of the wealth and improve welfare …
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Populism and Neopopulism in Latin America : Clientelism, Trade Union Organisation and Electoral Support in Mexico and Argentina in the '90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
ideal: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, (Mexico 1988-1994) and Carlos Menem (Argentina 1989-1999). Neopopulism is based on an …
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Too Much Oil
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2010
Fear for oil exhaustion and its consequences on economic growth has been a driver of a rich literature on exhaustible resources from the 1970s onwards. But our view on oil has remarkably changed and we now worry how we should constrain climate change damages associated with oil and other fossil...
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Investments and Financial Flows Induced by Climate Mitigation Policies
Bastianin, Andrea; Favero, Alice; Massetti, Emanuele - 2013
In this paper we use the hybrid integrated model WITCH to quantify and analyze the investments and financial flows stimulated by a climate policy to stabilize Greenhouse Gases concentrations at 550ppm CO2-eq at the end of the century. We focus on investments to decarbonize the power sector and...
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What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; … - 2012
Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990–2003, we characterize the factors which promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology-specific capabilities of the recipient countries are...
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