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The Socioeconomic Impacts of Energy Reform in Tunisia : A Simulation Approach
Cuesta, José - 2017
Tunisian social development policy making has always counted on energy subsidies to play a pivotal role. Due to the … increasingly unsustainable budget implications, a new strategy has begun to reform the subsidy system in the energy sector while … energy sources would lead to a short-term increase in the poverty rate of 2.5 percentage points. In addition, compensation …
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Energy Subsidies Reform in Jordan : Welfare Implications of Different Scenarios
Atamanov, Aziz - 2017
Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long contemplated how to cut electricity subsidies, which surpass the fiscal burdens imposed by the petroleum subsidies. This paper estimates the impacts of the 2012 petroleum...
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The Role of Income and Substitution in Commodity Demand
Baffes, John - 2020
This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The …, estimates for aggregate metals and energy differ by an order of magnitude throughout the income spectrum: from a low of 0.2 for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843248
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Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation : Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966022
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Climate Change and Water Variability : Do Water Treaties Contribute to River Basin Resilience?
Dinar, Shlomi - 2017
Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967833
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Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Future Vietnamese Households : A Micro-Simulation Approach
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development in the absence of climate change in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968641
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Exposure to Floods, Climate Change, and Poverty in Vietnam
Bangalore, Mook - 2017
With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural hazards, including river and coastal flooding. These hazards are expected to worsen due to climate change, and the impacts of any change in hazard magnitude may be particularly...
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Impact of Climate Change and Aquatic Salinization on Mangrove Species and Poor Communities in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
This paper investigates possible impacts of climate change on the poor communities of the Bangladesh Sundarbans via changes in aquatic salinity and mangrove species. The implications for poor communities are assessed by computing changes in high-value mangrove species for the five sub-districts...
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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database
Roson, Roberto - 2017
labor productivity, human health, tourism flows, and households' energy demand. All parameters of the damage functions are …
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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's Cadena Program
De Janvry, Alain - 2017
Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a...
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