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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...

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Macro-financial aspects of climate change

Feyen, Erik; Utz, Robert; Zuccardi Huertas, Igor Esteban; … - 2020

climate risks and constrained capacity for climate adaptation and mitigation efforts. The paper finds that many countries face …

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Linking top-down and bottom-up models for climate policy analysis : the case of China

Timilsina, Govinda R.; Pang, Jun; Yang, Xi - 2019

Top-down economic models, such as computable general equilibrium models, are the common tools to assess the economic impacts of climate change policies. However, these models are incapable of representing the detailed technological characteristics of the sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The...

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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement

Strand, Jon - 2019

high-income countries to increase mitigation in low-income countries. Climate finance solutions have advantages for high … carbon market," the market equilibrium is inefficient, as mitigation is excessive in low-income countries and too low in high …-income countries. Instead, mitigation outcomes in the offset market should be attributed to the two finance types in proportion to …

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Impact of drought on poverty in Somalia

Pape, Utz Johann; Wollburg, Philip - 2019

Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali...

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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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