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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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Migration and jobs : issues for the 21st century
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Robalino … - 2019
. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate … the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration …
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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 COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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Migration in Libya : a spatial network analysis
Di Maio, Michele; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; Molini, Vasco - Weltbankgruppe - 2020
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the … analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses … this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the …
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Migration and remittances in the Former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : what are the long-term macroeconomic consequences?
Brownbridge, Martin; Canagarajah, Sudharshan - 2020
Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an …
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