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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2022
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...
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Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health : Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil
Da Mata, Daniel; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor Azevedo; … - 2022
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088759
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155598
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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
Schiff, Maurice - 2010
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141777
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The Gender Education Gap in China : The Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2009
household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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The Power of Hydroelectric Dams : Agglomeration Spillovers
Severnini, Edson - 2014
similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067
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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana - 2013
structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …
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Hit by the Silk Road : How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Barth, Erling - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
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