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Methodology and findings for the exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : back...
Hu, Xi; Pant, Raghav; Zorn, Conrad; Lim, Weeho; Koks, Elco - 2019
understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051965
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Vulnerability to poverty following extreme weather events in Malawi
Baquie, Sandra; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020
understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of … structural poverty but not for assessing the vulnerability of non-poor households to fall below the poverty line when they … households' vulnerability to poverty in Malawi. To accurately estimate the impacts of shocks on consumption and vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390458
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Measuring inequality of access : modeling physical remoteness in Nepal
Banick, Robert; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro - 2019
Simple linear distances between origin and destination poorly describe travel in Nepal, where rugged terrain, underdeveloped transportation infrastructure, and diverse vegetation heavily influence favorable travel routes. In this context, expected travel times explain more about the remoteness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113900
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Identifying the vulnerable to poverty from natural disasters : the case of typhoons in the Philippines
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro; Strobl, Eric; … - 2019
from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051783
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Infrastructure disruptions : how instability breeds household vulnerability : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Obolensky, Marguerite; Erman, Alvina; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019
This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052017
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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
Dar es Salaam is frequently affected by severe flooding causing destruction and impeding daily life of its 4.5 million 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113994
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Poverty, vulnerability, and household coping strategies during the 2015–16 recession in Belarus
Bornukova, Kateryna; Cojocaru, Alexandru; Matycin, … - 2019
vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent … increase in the share of households that are vulnerable to poverty. The greater degree of vulnerability is also evident from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114354
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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy
Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024
and vulnerability estimation to create highly disaggregated vulnerability maps. The maps include predictions of the share … of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044940
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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
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 most scenarios. These results are commensurate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388738
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Macro-financial aspects of climate change
Feyen, Erik; Utz, Robert; Zuccardi Huertas, Igor Esteban; … - 2020
This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228213