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the climate change bill, namely mitigation, proactive (ex ante) adaptation, reactive (ex post) adaptation, and ultimate … damages of climate change affect growth, especially in developing countries. The authors consider successively the Cass … increasing returns. The paper finds that although the growth literature rarely addresses climate change per se, some issues …
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How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate … and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined with climate data for the past three decades. The study finds that … shocks and observed production reactions to climate anomalies can, respectively, provide hints about livelihood vulnerability …
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The world's climate is changing. It is well recognized that technical standards and project specifications of public … infrastructure have to be adjusted, depending on the climate. However, it is less recognized that the public infrastructure … credibility could be improved by taking climate conditions into account. If future precipitation were anticipated by backward …
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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 … pessimistic and labeled ?poverty.? Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts?in agriculture, health, and natural …
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Climate change and climate policies will affect poverty reduction efforts through direct and immediate impacts on the … between climate change and policies and poverty outcomes by examining three questions: the (static) impact on poor people … these channels are affected by climate change and climate policies, focusing on the exposure, vulnerability, and ability to …
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interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A … gives rise to long-lived, damaging climate change. In the "new" sector, the technology has convex-concave production and is …
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The influence of climate on economic growth is a topic of growing interest. Few studies have investigated the potential … role that climate hazards and their cumulative effects have on the growth prospects for a country. Due to the relatively … stationary spatial patterns of global climate, some regions and countries are more prone to climate hazards and climate …
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The 2009 global recession demonstrated, once again, the importance of crisis prevention as well as the critical need for preserving policy room so that emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can act when their economies are hit by shocks. And now, with the global growth outlook still...
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Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
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This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
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