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Gunby, Nicholas; Coupé, Tom - 2021

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Natural disasters and political disorder : why urban flooding turns violent : applying a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Plänitz, Erik - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1-18

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The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Rabassa, Mariano; Olivieri, Sergio; … - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 51, pp. 1-5

Over the last century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. However, there is an increasing concern that climate change could slow or possibly even reverse poverty reduction progress. Given the complexities involved in analyzing climate change...

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Climate change, natural disasters, and migration

Mbaye, Linguère Mously - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

The relationship between climatic shocks, natural disasters, and migration has received increasing attention in recent years and is quite controversial. One view suggests that climate change and its associated natural disasters increase migration. An alternative view suggests that climate change...

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When shocks become persistent: Household-level asset growth in the aftermath of an extreme weather event

Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - 2018

-year winter disaster on post-shock livestock accumulation among pastoralists in Mongolia. Building on a unique household …With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, assessing the potential …-off extreme weather event can have persistent effects on household-level asset growth. Our focus is on the effect of a once-in-50 …

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Extremely harsh winters threaten the livelihood of Mongolia's herders

Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - In: DIW Weekly Report 8 (2018) 40, pp. 369-375

Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their … show that extreme weather events have long-term negative consequences on households and underscore the need for systematic …

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Extreme Wetterereignisse bedrohen die Lebensgrundlage der Viehhalter in der Mongolei

Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Krähnert, Kati - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 40, pp. 850-855

Haushalte in Entwicklungsländern sind zunehmend extremen Wetterereignissen ausgesetzt, die ihren Wohlstand gefährden können. Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen des ungewöhnlich kalten und schneereichen Winters von 2009/2010 auf den Viehbestand mongolischer Haushalte. Der Viehbestand macht...

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Extreme Wetterereignisse bedrohen die Lebensgrundlage der Viehhalter in der Mongolei

Lehmann-Uschner, Anna Katharina; Schindler, Kati - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 40, pp. 850-855

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The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence from a Sanitation Campaign in India

Stopnitzky, Yaniv - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Female bargaining power in rural Haryana, as in much of northern India, is constrained by widespread discrimination against women. In recent years, however, women successfully demand private sanitation facilities from potential husbands as a precondition for marriage. I study this manifestation...

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Challenges of Rural Economy and Women Economic Empowerment in Afghanistan : A Concept Note

Karimi, Abdul Matin - 2018

This research paper has been developed with the intention of shedding light over the major challenges and remedies of rural economy in Afghanistan and also discussing explicitly about the women economic empowerment considering Afghanistan’s context. This paper has been prepared in two parts,...

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