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Kenya Country Environmental Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
The Kenya Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) presents recent findings and trends on key environmental challenges and … investments. The core of Kenya's poverty and environmental problems lies at the nexus of population growth, inequality, and high … the impact of existing vulnerabilities to environmental shocks such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves. Kenya's economy …
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Labor market impacts and responses : the economic consequences of a marine environmental disaster
Hoang Trung Xuan; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen … - 2019
This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts...
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2016
Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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Assessing the Environmental Co-Benefits of Climate Change Actions
Hamilton, Kirk - 2010
This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging natural resources for growth and poverty reduction;...
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Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view
Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241139
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Migration and brain drain
Weltbank / Europe and Central Asia Region / Office of … - 2019
mobility and presents the trends, determinants, and impacts of low- and high-skilled labor …
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Understanding decisions made on asylum applications in host countries
Issifou, Ismael - 2020
Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229127
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229771
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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan
Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019
To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little evidence of how immigration affects the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008388
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Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan : Experience and Evidence with International Afghan Labor Mobility at Micro Level
Garrote Sanchez, Daniel - 2018
This paper analyzes Afghanistan's migration phenomenon from a microeconomic perspective. Given the elevated pressures in the labor market, a common tool to sustain livelihoods is migration, affecting 16 percent of Afghan households, both current migrants and returnees. Compared to nonmigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645012