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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. Two representative scenarios are … selected from these hundreds. One scenario is optimistic regarding poverty and is labeled ?prosperity;? the other scenario is …
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People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as …-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support … households, suggesting that different mechanisms?such as land scarcity?are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …
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inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …
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of income, and access to coping mechanisms, but not by their poverty, as measured by the annual expenditure level. (4 … concludes with two policy implications. First, flood management could be considered as a component of the poverty … living in poverty before the shock …
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Climate change and climate policies will affect poverty reduction efforts through direct and immediate impacts on the … poor and by affecting factors that condition poverty reduction, such as economic growth. This paper explores this relation … between climate change and policies and poverty outcomes by examining three questions: the (static) impact on poor people …
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This review examines the literature on the welfare impacts of infrastructure disruptions. There is widespread evidence that households suffer from the consequences of a lack of infrastructure reliability, and that being connected to the grid is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap....
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Natural disasters have an impact on poverty through many different channels -- economic growth, health, schooling … next year, 26 million fewer people would be in extreme poverty?that is, living on less than $1.90 a day. A systematic …
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This paper presents a dynamic model of the reinsurance market for catastrophe risks. The model is based on the classical capacity-constraint assumption. Reinsurers choose every year the quantity of risk they cover and the level of external capital they raise to cover these risks. The model...
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