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It Is Time to Factor Natural Disasters into Macroeconomic Scenarios

Thomas, Vinod - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 52, pp. 1-4

Over the recent year, humanity has faced natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude and impact. However, governments and international aid organizations do not systematically plan for preventing and mitigating the effects of natural disasters, and macroeconomic scenarios seldom take into...

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Financing greener and climate-resilient infrastructure in developing countries - challenges and opportunities

Fay, Marianne; Iimi, Atsushi; Perrissin-Fabert, Baptiste - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2010

Developing countries are faced with a substantial and persistent infrastructure deficit. Climate change complicates this challenge, affcting the way we design and manage infrastructure (defined here as transport, power, water and sanitation) and increasing costs. But all s not negative: Climate...

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Weather Variability, Agriculture and Rural Migration: Evidence from State and District Level Migration in India

Viswanathan, Brinda; Kumar, K.S. Kavi - The South Asian Network for Development and …

consideration. Migration is certainly a potential adaptation strategy for people adversely affected by the impact of weather and …

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Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

Hertel, Thomas W.; Lobell, David B. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 562-575

In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades. Due to … rising temperatures throughout the tropics, pressures for adaptation will be greatest in some of the poorest parts of the … adaptation in the farm and food sector. In general, we find that existing integrated assessment models are better suited to …

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