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and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant … challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other vector-borne and water-borne diseases that are likely to experience … and malaria transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. In the context of growing financial pressure on governments due to …
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duration. Here we examine the impact of malaria on the contribution of potato to the Old World's development during the 18th …. We show that local weather conditions ideal for malaria transmission counteracted the potential benefits of introducing … the potato in the Old World. Robustness checks from geographic variations in malaria stability, suitability for potato …
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, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the “Global Fund”) represents an innovation in the mechanisms for international health financing. This …
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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the …
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consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …
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The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...
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In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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