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Duterte's pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines

Teehankee, Julio C. - 2022

combating the virus has been spotty at best. Yet Duterte's populism has proven to be resilient. He has remained extremely …

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Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades … likely to support Bolsonaro in 2018. The link between trade liberalization and populism is mediated by austerity in both …

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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection

Jain, Sanjay - 2017

We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection - the provision of redistribution and retraining - that arguably...

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An uncertainty approach to modelling climate change risk in South Africa

Cullis, James; Alton, Theresa; Arndt, Channing; … - 2015

This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...

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REDD+ as performance-based aid: General lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

Angelsen, Arild - 2013

REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...

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The impact of climate change on pastoral production systems: A study of climate variability and household adaptation strategies in southern Ethiopian rangelands

Berhanu, Wassie; Beyene, Fekadu - 2014

This paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. It is based on a household level survey in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Pastoralists' perception of climate change in the region is found to be...

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Climate change and economic growth prospects for Malawi: An uncertainty approach

Arndt, Channing; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth; … - 2014

Malawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on three impact channels: agriculture, road infrastructure,...

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Modeling impact of climate change on water resources and agriculture demand in the Volta Basin and other basin systems in Ghana

Amisigo, Barnabas A.; McCluskey, Alyssa; Swanson, Richard - 2014

An assessment of the impacts of projected climate change on water availability and crop production in the Volta Basin and the southwestern and coastal basin systems of Ghana has been undertaken as a component of the impacts and adaptation study for Ghana by UNU-WIDER and the University of Ghana....

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Implications of climate change for Ghana's economy

Arndt, Channing; Asante, Felix; Thurlow, James - 2014

Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country's dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detailed sector studies, to estimate the...

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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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