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Trust or property rights? : can trusted relationships substitute for costly land registration in West African cities?
Letrouit, Lucie; Selod, Harris - 2020
The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228213
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South Asia Climate Change Risks in Water Management : Climate Risks and Solutions - Adaptation Frameworks for Water Resources Planning, Development, and Management in South Asia
Hirji, Rafik - 1905
Water management is a key development challenge in South Asia. The region - one of the most densely-populated and climate-vulnerable parts of the world - has the world's fastest growing regional economy and the largest proportion of poorest people. With 23.7 percent of the global population, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645199
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Pension System plus Climate Risk : Measurement plus Mitigation
World Bank Group - 2020
actions taken (Section 2); a climate risk exposure landscape based on quantitative analysis deriving country pension fund … climate risk scores (Section 3); a complementary regulatory mapping and score that uses a combined quantitative and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647525
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Vulnerability to poverty following extreme weather events in Malawi
Baquie, Sandra; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020
understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390458
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Investing in Disaster Risk Management in an Uncertain Climate
McDermott, Thomas K.J. - 2016
development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246260
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Climate Risk and Financial Institutions : Challenges and Opportunities
Stenek, Vladimir - 2011
long-lived assets have both a direct financial risk to consider and the opportunity to create value by working proactively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247408
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Climate Risk Case Study : Bulleh Shah Paper Mills - Packages, Ltd., Kasur, Pakistan
Stenek, Vladimir - 2011
This report presents a climate risk assessment for International Finance Corporation (IFC's) investment in Bulleh Shah …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248461
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051959
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002717