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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970677
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An Empirical Economic Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Zambia
Jain, Suman - 2016
This report assesses the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using the Ricardian method. A …, soil, and socioeconomic variables as explanatory variables. There is one main cropping season in Zambia, lasting from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747674
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The WTO Doha Round, Cotton Sector Dynamics and Poverty Trends in Zambia
Balat, Jorge F.; Porto, Guido G. - 2014
agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often vulnerable, smallholders. This paper investigates the connection between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062398
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Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Wetlands : Impacts and Costs
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
Scientific evidence indicates that global warming could well lead to a sea-level rise of 1 meter or more in the 21st century. This paper seeks to quantify how a 1-meter sea-level rise that would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing countries and territories, taking into account how much of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974808
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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa
AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018
The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906400
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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, And"Development Traps"
Golub, Alexander - 2017
This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973050
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Sustainable and Smart Cities
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973213
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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840715
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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa
Alpino, Matteo - 2020
allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841687
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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings
Geli, Patricia - 2017
A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972899