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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2022
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209879
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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221786
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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2022
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013283993
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736186
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Does global warming worsen poverty and inequality? : an updated review
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hallegatte, Stéphane; Trong Anh Trinh - 2023
We offer an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422614
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Trends in World Food Security (Tendencias Mundiales En La Seguridad Alimentaria)
Maletta, Hector E. - 2009
: FAO estimates nearly 800 million people eat insufficient food, below the minimum allowance to maintain good health, and … people consuming less than the minimum amount of food compatible with good health) has correspondingly gone down, according … nobody disputes the trend. The nutrition and health effect is also perceptible. Life expectancy is increasing, and preschool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069186
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186570
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
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 threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners' : a fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - 2014
What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251665
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Does aid work for the poor?
McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - 2011
concern of the paper is the impact of aid on the wealth, education and health of the poorest. Results indicate that while aid …-being, growth, wealth, health, education, mortality, fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409618