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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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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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Macro-financial aspects of climate change
Feyen, Erik; Utz, Robert; Zuccardi Huertas, Igor Esteban; … - 2020
This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
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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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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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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement
Strand, Jon - 2019
This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
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Mongolia : distributional impact of taxes and transfers
Freije, Samuel; Yang, Judy S. - 2018
This paper uses Mongolia's Household Socio Economic Survey for 2016 to estimate the distributive impact of taxes and … 35 percent of total expenditures in monetary and in-kind transfers is funded by corporate taxes and royalties-which are …
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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia
Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020
of the distributional impacts of taxes and expenditures in Colombia in 2017. It makes a methodological comparison with … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …
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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution
Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2020
Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 … countries with theory to shed new light on the redistributive potential and optimal design of consumption taxes. It uses the … all countries. The informal sector thus makes consumption taxes progressive: households in the richest quintile face an …
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Why are connection charges so high? : an analysis of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Blimpo, Moussa P.; McRae, Shaun D.; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2018
This study develops and structurally estimates a model of household and electric utility behavior to describe how the low access rates and high connection charges that are common in the Sub-Saharan Africa region arise from regulated electricity tariffs being set too low. As a result, the...
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