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The curse of bad geography : stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital
Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023
Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...
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Positional goods, climate change and the social returns to investment
Davis, Leila; Skott, Peter - 2011
The economic analysis of global warming is dominated by models based on optimal growth theory. This approach can generate biases in the presence of positional goods and status effects. We show that by ignoring these direct consumption externalities, integrated assessment models overestimate the...
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Positional goods, climate change and the social returns to investment
Davis, Leila; Skott, Peter - In: Social fairness and economics : economic essays in the …, (pp. 101-121). 2013
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The Macroeconomic Returns of Investment in Resilience to Natural Disasters Under Climate Change : A DSGE Approach
Corugedo, Emilio Fernández; Gonzalez Gomez, Andres; … - 2023
This paper presents a Markov switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model designed to evaluate the macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows the existing literature in assuming that NDs destroy a...
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Methodology and findings for the exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : back...
Hu, Xi; Pant, Raghav; Zorn, Conrad; Lim, Weeho; Koks, Elco - 2019
This paper describes the methodology and findings for the extreme hazard exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater sector to flooding and earthquakes hazards. This analysis is undertaken for changing flooding, under climate scenarios, and earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater...
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Strengthening new infrastructure assets : a cost-benefit analysis : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Rozenberg, Julie; Rentschler, Jun; … - 2019
This paper explores the benefits and the costs of strengthening infrastructure assets to make them more resilient, reducing the repair costs and infrastructure disruptions caused by natural hazards. Strengthening infrastructure assets in low- and middle-income countries would increase investment...
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania: Past volatility and future climate change
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Hertel, Thomas W.; … - 2011
Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …
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Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Hertel, Thomas W.; … - 2009
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Climate Volatility and Poverty Vulnerability in Tanzania
Ahmed, Syud Amer - 2009
productivity through greater frequency of yield-diminishing climate extremes, such as droughts. For Tanzania, where agricultural … assesses the vulnerability of Tanzania’s population to poverty to changes in climate variability between the late 20th century … like Tanzania …
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