Climate Change and Poverty Reduction—Where Does Official Development Assistance Money Go?

There is an urgent need to mainstream the key challenges of climate change into sector and development planning and decision making processes to create sustainable long-term development. Empirical results in this study emphasize that more caution is needed in directing overseas development aid (ODA) towards climate change mitigation and adaptation due to the links between various macroeconomic variables related to growth and poverty reduction.

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Year of publication:	2011-11-06
Authors:	Kalirajan, Kaliappa ; Singh, Kanhaiya ; Thangavelu, Shandre ; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi ; Perera, Kumidini
Institutions:	Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank
Subject:	climate change \| overseas development assistance \| millennium development goals \| technology transfer

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	ADBI Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series ADBI Working Papers Number 318 45 pages
Classification:	F35 - Foreign Aid ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; P33 - International Trade, Finance, Investment, and Aid ; Q56 - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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