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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 available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …
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pessimistic and labeled "poverty." Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts-in agriculture, health, and natural …The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. Two representative scenarios are …
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People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as …-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a "poverty exposure bias" and finds support … households, suggesting that different mechanisms-such as land scarcity-are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity …
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, asset accumulation, or income smoothing in agriculture and off-farm activities. It combines household survey data collected … increase savings. They also help households protect earnings in agriculture and off-farm businesses when shocks occur. Few …
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This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …
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investments in zero and low carbon technologies and systems. The World Bank is now beginning to actively engage partners it …
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