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Fiscal policy's role in economic resilience to climate shocks

Rezai, Armon; Ruch, Franz; Choudhary, Rishabh; … - 2024

management and requiring enhanced levels of resilience. This paper explores how to mitigate the effects of such climate shocks on … developing economies, placing a particular focus on the role fiscal policy in creating and strengthening an economy’s resilience … long-run disaster impacts in the World Bank's macroeconomic and fiscal model and illustrates the importance of fiscal …

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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia

Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...

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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane harvey

Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021

Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...

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Household vulnerability on the frontline of climate change : the pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu

Taupo, Tauisi; Cuffe, Harold; Noy, Ilan - 2016

, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...

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Measurement of economic welfare risk and resilience of the Philippine regions

Yonson, Rio; Noy, Ilan - 2018

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … resilience to riverine flood disasters and what will be their measured benefit? We study the 18 regions of the Philippines to … losses at the microeconomic level. Apart from the prioritization of regions based on resilience and welfare risk, we identify …

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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...

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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...

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Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...

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