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pessimistic and labeled "poverty." Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts-in agriculture, health, and natural …The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. Two representative scenarios are …
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inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … (damage to or loss of assets or property) and indirect (losses involving health, infrastructure, labor, and education) impacts … percent of annual income on average. Surprisingly, poorer households are not over-represented among the households that lost …
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services in 2030) halve poverty impacts compared with the pessimistic baselines. Health impacts (malaria, diarrhea, and …Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in …
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indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and … more resilient. Nationally and on average, the bottom income quintile suffers only 7 percent of the total asset losses but …
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the shock, and the ability of households to recover was driven by the magnitude of their losses, sources of income, and … access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4) There is a measurable … implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty-reduction strategy in the city. Second …
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Natural disasters have an impact on poverty through many different channels-economic growth, health, schooling …, behaviors-that are difficult to quantify. It is nonetheless possible to assess the short-term impacts of income losses. A … counterfactual scenario is built of what people's income would be in developing countries in the absence of natural disasters. This …
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People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as …-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a "poverty exposure bias" and finds support … households, suggesting that different mechanisms-such as land scarcity-are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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