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Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?
Skees, Jerry; Varangis, Panos; Larson, Donald - 2013
events, the authors use Mexico as a case study. In Mexico, poor households are exposed to systemic risks, such as droughts … the existence of producer organizations. In Mexico, the farmer mutual insurance funds provide a good example. These funds …
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Remittances and Natural Disasters : Ex-post Response and Contribution to Ex-ante Preparedness
Mohapatra, Sanket; Joseph, George; Ratha, Dilip - 2012
Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries...
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Sovereign Natural Disaster Insurance for Developing Countries : A Paradigm Shift in Catastrophe Risk Financing
Ghesquiere, Francis; Mahul, Olivier - 2012
Economic theory suggests that countries should ignore uncertainty for public investment and behave as if indifferent to risk because they can pool risks to a much greater extent than private investors can. This paper discusses the general economic theory in the case of developing countries. The...
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The Macro Financing of Natural Hazards in Developing Countries
Mahul, Olivier; Gurenko, Eugene - 2012
The authors propose a financial model to address the design of efficient risk financing strategies against natural disasters at the country level. It is simple enough to shed analytical light on some of the key issues but flexible and realistic enough to provide some quantitative guidance on the...
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A Cost Effective Solution to Reduce Disaster Losses in Developing Countries : Hydro-Meteorological Services, Early Warning, and Evacuation
Hallegatte, St??phane - 2012
In Europe, it can be estimated that hydro-meteorological information and early warning systems save several hundreds of lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3.4 and 34 billion of additional benefits per year...
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Contagion and Firms??? Internationalization in Latin America : Evidence from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile
Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - 2012
Brazilian crisis to Mexico and Chile. …
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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - 2013
studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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Municipal Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate-Related Events in Mexico
Borja-Vega, Christian; de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2013
A climate change vulnerability index in agriculture is presented at the municipal level in Mexico. Because the index is … baseline that coastal areas host some of the most vulnerable municipalities to climate change in Mexico. However, it also shows … adverse socio-demographic conditions. With the vast municipal data available in Mexico, further sub-index estimations can lead …
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The Poverty Impact of Climate Change in Mexico
de la Fuente, Alejandro; Olivera Villarroel, Marcelo - 2013
This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate change (temperature and rainfall change) and municipal level gross domestic product, and subsequently between gross domestic product and poverty. The evidence suggests that climate...
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Changing Farm Types and Irrigation as an Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin American Agriculture
Mendelsohn, Robert; Seo, Niggol - 2012
This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value functions. The model is estimated across over 2,000...
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