Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to … the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …

study poverty traps in the light of climate change. Global pollution is a negative externality of capital accumulation in … both world regions, and climate change causes damages to the stock of physical capital in the more vulnerable South. Non … threshold effects, possibly leading to a long-run equilibrium with persistent poverty. Climate policy in the North that aims to …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

In this paper we examine the interrelatedness between regime types of democracy and non-democracy and poverty reduction … recent years, while the reduction of poverty is a central goal of the global development agenda as embodied by the … Sustainable Development Goals. Democracies could promote poverty reduction by encouraging redistribution, lifting barriers for …

How can countries eradicate poverty while also addressing climate change? Despite the necessity to deal with both … of poverty reduction (CIPR), defined as the ratio between proportional changes in emissions levels and the share of the … population above the poverty line, is heterogeneous across countries. This heterogeneity is partly explained by economic growth …

The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is … yearly, and about 80% of the population depending on rainfed agriculture, water scarcity and dryness constitute serious … constraints for the agriculture and livestock sectors. In addition, the unequal distribution of agricultural land and livestock …