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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...
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understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as …
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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 …
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Policy makers are increasingly interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future … protection against shocks, but their role in fostering resilience has been less studied. This paper assesses whether the … drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation …
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and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design …
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"The study develops a new method to measure the impacts of climate change on agriculture called the Agro … Africa and where it is located is provided. Using current conditions, the model calculates baseline values of cropland and … identifies the aggregate impacts, but also indicates where the impacts occur across Africa. The central region of Africa is hurt …
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