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The transition towards a low-carbon economy requires the fundamental reallocation of financial capital from current technology towards green innovation. The role of public financing of green technological innovation by Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) is a largely unexplored area. In this...
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Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
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Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and … consumption. Our results indicate that an energy poverty eradication policy to be met by 2030 would increase global final energy … poverty would produce 16-131 GtCO2 over the 21st century and contribute at most 0.1C of additional warming …
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Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...
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. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food …, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs have been established as some of the most efficient poverty …
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This paper investigates whether changes in climatic conditions significantly contribute to incidence of poverty in the … Philippines. Due to the lack of sufficient regional estimates of poverty, this study utilized food cpi data to proxy for poverty … level. The relationship between poverty level and food cpi were tested and found to be moving in parallel direction, and …
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The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. These …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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