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Wealth inequality and CO2 emissions in emerging economies: The case of BRICS

Aye, Goodness C. - 2020

As the world battles with the triple problems of social, economic, and environmental challenges, it has become important to focus both policy and research efforts on these. Therefore, this study examines the effect of wealth inequality on CO2 emissions in five emerging economies: Brazil, Russia,...

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Effect of non-farm work on agricultural productivity: Empirical evidence from northern Ghana

Anang, Benjamin Tetteh - 2017

This paper investigates the factors influencing participation in non-farm work and the effect of participation on farmers' productivity, using survey data from 300 smallholder farm households in northern Ghana. The study employs an endogenous switching regression model to address selection into...

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Individual-level employment transitions in rural Viet Nam

2018

Structural transformation in rural areas is a key issue in economic development. While much of the literature on structural transformation has so far focussed on household- or commune levels or even higher aggregate levels, little is known about the individual member level. The paper aims at...

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Climate variability and household welfare in northern Ghana

Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe - 2014

Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people live in the north and households find it difficult to hold back their productive assets during the lean season. This study investigates the impact of climate variability on...

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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2018

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...

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Weathering shocks: The effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa

Nsabimana, Aimable - 2022

There has been much discussion on climate change and its adverse effects on agriculture, including excessive loss of food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods, shocks in weather patterns affect farmers' expectations of...

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Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Viet Nam

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018

Using matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Viet Nam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions. Wage equations indicate that there are no clear compensating...

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Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … those months to assess the short-term impact of the 2015 flood on household consumption and poverty levels. Applying a … difference-in-difference approach, we find that, for those exposed to the flood, consumption reduced significantly in the short …

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Promoting environmental sustainability in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Tanzania

Kinyondo, Abel; Huggins, Christopher - 2021

This study examines the interaction between formalization of the artisanal and smallscale mining subsector and the regulation of negative environmental impacts in Tanzania. Formalization generally seeks to move the artisanal and small-scale mining subsector to legal status. Using documents,...

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Growth and inequality convergence: The role of environmentally related impacts on human capital

Mensah, Angela Cindy Emefa; Barbier, Edward - 2022

We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial incidence of environmentally related impacts on...

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