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The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030 and the Potential from Rapid, Inclusive, and Climate-Informed Development

Rozenberg, Julie - 2015

The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty...

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Institutions for Regulatory Governance

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

This paper looks at the role and design of regulatory reform institutions in developing countries. These institutions … and by promoting the regulatory reform agenda; and 4) Ad hoc institutions for regulatory reform, established to launch …: section one briefly reviews the theoretical debate and literature about the role of institutions in facilitating higher …

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Trade barriers in government procurement

Mulabdic, Alen; Rotunno, Lorenzo - In: The economics of deep trade agreements, (pp. 99-106). 2021

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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

Trade rebounded in 2017, with trade volume growing at 4.3 percent in 2017 - the fastest rate in 6 years. The recovery of trade is not limited to a few regions but is widespread, suggesting that we may be at a turning point. The largest contributions to global trade growth have come from East...

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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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Socioeconomic Resilience : Multi-Hazard Estimates in 117 Countries

Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2016

This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare. The paper proposes a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to...

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Disaster Risk, Climate Change, and Poverty : Assessing the Global Exposure of Poor People to Floods and Droughts

Winsemius, Hessel C. - 2015

People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as floods and droughts. Previous studies in local contexts have shown that poor people are also often overrepresented in hazard-prone areas. However, systematic evidence across...

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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries

Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2016

This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...

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Regulatory Quality and Competition Policy

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

protecting consumers through economic regulation. Part two of this paper considers institutions and processes for implementing …

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Making It Work : 'RIA Light' for Developing Countries

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

This report is an output of the Better Regulation for Growth Program between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and IC, the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group. The reports identifies a set of minimum...

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