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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
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Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....
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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … agriculture workers, followed by redistribution policies. Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts?in agriculture … extreme poverty just because of climate change impacts. Those scenarios in which climate change pushes the most people into …
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hazards, including river and coastal flooding. These hazards are expected to worsen due to climate change, and the impacts of … impacts can make frequent events as important as rare ones in terms of exposure: for instance, the estimates suggest a 25-year …
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This paper investigates possible impacts of climate change on the poor communities of the Bangladesh Sundarbans via …
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variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment …
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Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a...
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Climate change has considerably increased the likelihood of experiencing extreme weather events. Governments in developing countries have a limited capacity to smooth the losses created by extreme weather, and could potentially benefit from the introduction of disaster funds, that is, ex-ante...
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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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possibilities have been diminished by climate change impacts. This needs to be balanced against the upfront cost of scaling up a … this trade-off, based on numerical simulation of a multi-period model of economic growth and climate change impacts that …
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