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The impacts of climate change on poverty in 2030 and the potential from rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development : shock waves: managing the impacts of climate change on ...

Rozenberg, Julie; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2015

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...

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Revised estimates of the impact of climate change on extreme poverty by 2030 : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Jafino, Bramka Arga; Walsh, Brian; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2020

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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Wading out the storm : the role of poverty in exposure, vulnerability and resilience to floods in Dar Es Salaam

Erman, Alvina; Tariverdi, Mercedeh; Obolensky, Marguerite; … - 2019

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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