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A growing body of research connects short-run deviations in weather with violence. Less well understood is the scope for agents to adapt to medium and longer-run climate fluctuations. We follow Hsiang, Meng, and Cane (2011) and use the existing climactic forces of the El Niño Southern...
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links to agricultural growth, food security, poverty reduction, and peace in the region. Second, technological, socio …
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Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
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links to agricultural growth, food security, poverty reduction, and peace in the region. Second, technological, socio …
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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all proposals; in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis...
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world brought about a new order characterized by higher inflation volatility, severe commodity price shocks and uncertainty …Gone are the days when inflation fears had receded under years of 'Great Moderation' in macroeconomics. The US subprime … over sovereign bond creditworthiness to name just a few. All of which tend to put in jeopardy both conventional inflation …
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that wrongly made population growth the prime mover' for inflation, with grave deficiencies in their economic theory. Most … sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the … economists and historians had attributed this sustained European inflation to the influx of Spanish-American treasure', chiefly …
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Recent research has examined the link between rising educational attainment and its impact on inflation, via the … economies. We find that the education-adjusted unemployment gap does little to help estimate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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High economic growth, price stability and low unemployment are the most enviable macroeconomic goals. The success of … government policies is reflected in low inflation and low unemployment. The nature and costs of inflation and unemployment can … growth, lacklustre economic growth, fiscal indiscipline, escalating debt-servicing and non- development expenditure which …
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