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"Hoekman and Javorcik focus on policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization. They briefly review the effects of trade and investment liberalization on firms, focusing on within-industry effects. They postulate that governments' role in supporting the process is to (1) ensure that firms...
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to take decades, and with the impacts of projected climate change-even with proactive adaptation-likely to be quite …
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"This paper addresses two vital concerns in the debate on adaptation to climate change. First, how can countries … governmental institutions required to manage the phenomenal challenge of adaptation to climate change? A range of economic and …
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"Climate scientists have identified global warming as the most important environmental issue of our time, but it has taken over 20 years for the problem to penetrate the public discourse in even the most superficial manner. While some nations have done better than others, no nation has...
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adaptation. This paper examines long-term climate governance, particularly in relation to overcoming "institutional inertia" that … majorities in favor of deploying an active mitigation and adaptation policy regime can be maintained. Measures to help effect …
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"The study develops a new method to measure the impacts of climate change on agriculture called the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) Model. A multinomial logit is estimated to predict the probability of each AEZ in each district. The average percentage of cropland and average crop net revenue are...
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development goals and explores relevant institutions in the context of mainstreaming climate adaptation into development …
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