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Resilience to crisis through social protection : can we build the case?

Roca, Thomas; Ferrer, Hélène - 2016

This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an …

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Cost and impact analysis of sea level rise on coastal Vietnam

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L. - 2014

The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam. The study utilizes a quantitative approach for...

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COVID-19 in Central America : effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment

Olvera, Beatriz Calzada; Gonzalez-Sauri, Mario; Louvin, … - 2021

With data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, this paper examines how firm-level resilience capabilities interact … variables to approximate resilience-related capabilities before (static) and after (dynamic) the COVID-19 pandemic. We create … four counterfactual groups using a Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation to assess which resilience capabilities help firms …

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Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience : evidence from Idai

Fisker, Peter Simonsen; Malmgren-Hansen, David; … - 2021

Cyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central Mozambique, especially the port city of Beira, upon its landfall in March 2019. This study reviews and compares measurements of the impact, using various sources of remote sensing...

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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

their agency in the face of the crisis, their resilience has been as much about deepening vulnerability as about recovery …, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately …

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Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development : insights from development studies

Park, Albert Sanghoon - 2023

This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of … resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience … findings. First is the absence of a coherent resilience paradigm (with shared definitions, problems, and methods) in …

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