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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with...
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, shocks in weather patterns affect farmers' expectations of farm yield and hence the decision to adopt farm inputs such as … this study, I explore the relationship between weather shocks and the intensity of inputs use at the plot level using large …
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Mozambique is highly vulnerable to climate change. It faces frequent cyclones, floods, and droughts while having limited revenue collection capacity and social protection programmes. This paper assesses the distributional effects of climate shocks on household consumption and explores adaptation...
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We show that the Russia-Ukraine-war-induced changes in the international price of wheat affected political violence in Asia. Using data from 13 countries and more than four million cell-level observations, we show that a higher wheat price increases political violence in areas that are more...
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Since 2006, global prices and price volatility for foodgrain commodities have spiked frequently and dramatically. Such spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable portion of economic activity. We demonstrate how US...
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India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...
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This paper examines the interaction of globalization through trade liberalization and climate change, globally with a special focus on Morocco and Turkey. We use the GTAP model, which is a global general equilibrium model, to investigate trade liberalization welfare impacts under climate change,...
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Emissions mitigation policies affect prices, including prices for fossil fuels and agricultural products. Consumer prices for coal and natural gas are expected to rise when climate policy is implemented, while oil prices may be reduced or remain the same in comparison to a no policy scenario....
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and … health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather … shocks, we exploit the plausibly exogenous variations in the exposure to weather shocks to estimate the relationship. Our …
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income shocks. The empirical strategy identifies households’ responses to random weather shocks and estimates their … to cope with negative weather shocks than those living in regions with non-state armed actor presence but with limited or … no intervention. The former households face a lower economic impact of weather shocks and resort less to survival …
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