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Madagascar Economic Update, October 2017 : Coping with Shocks

World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2017

The World Bank is sharing the seventh edition of the Economic Update of Madagascar, which presents our analysis for the … such as rice fell, contributing to higher inflation and an increase in food imports. And in March 2017, Madagascar …

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Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

Rigaud, Kanta Kumari - 2018

This report, which focuses on three regions - Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world's population - finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. It projects that...

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Adaptive Social Protection : Building Resilience to Shocks

Bowen, Thomas - 2020

Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these...

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Shock waves : managing the impacts of climate change on poverty

Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

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Environmental Reliance, Climate Exposure, and Vulnerability : A Cross-Section Analysis of Structural and Stochastic Poverty

Angelsen, Arild - 2015

This paper analyzes environmental reliance, poverty, and climate vulnerability among more than 7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24 developing countries. The data are from the detailed, quarterly income recording done by the Poverty Environment Network project. Observed income...

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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's CADENA Program

De Janvry, Alain - 2016

payments from weather index insurance allow farmers to cultivate a larger land area in the season following a weather shock …

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The Monsoon Shock in Rural Nepal : Panel Evidence from the Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey

Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2019

monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the monsoon shock and to quantify household vulnerability to it. The … authors find that the impact of the monsoon shock is concentrated in communities where water-intensive paddy dominates wet … months after the wet season harvest, all decline in response to a negative monsoon rainfall shock. A one standard deviation …

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Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks in an Open Economy : Evidence from Canada

Belinga, Vincent - 2016

What is the impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables in Canada? This question triggered renewed interest in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Great Recession. Indeed, as in many advanced economies, fiscal policy in Canada following the recession started with an expansionary phase...

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Income Shocks and Conflict : Evidence from Nigeria

Abidoye, Babatunde - 2015

This paper extends the micro evidence on the impact of income shocks on civil conflict using data across Nigerian states over the past decade. The paper uses an innovative empirical strategy matching household survey, oil production, and domestic and international price data to capture three...

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New approaches to the identification of low-frequency drivers : an application to technology

Dieppe, Alistair; Francis, Neville; Kindberg-Hanlon, Gene - 2019

This paper addresses the identification of low-frequency macroeconomic shocks, such as technology, in Structural Vector Autoregressions. Whilst identification issues with long-run restricted VARs are well documented, the recent attempt to overcome said issues using the Max-Share approach of...

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