This paper estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them, focusing mostly on a broad notion of subsidies arising when consumer prices are below supply costs plus environmental costs and general consumption taxes. Subsidies are $4.9 trillion...

This paper examines the impacts of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days more than a standard deviation from their respective long-run means, on household consumption per capita and child height-for-age. The results reveal that the current risk-coping mechanisms are not...

Climate change is believed to represent a serious challenge to poverty reduction efforts around the globe. This paper conducts an up-to-date review of three main strands of the literature analyzing the poverty impacts of climate change : (i) economy-wide growth models incorporating climate...

Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Abbreviations -- Disquiet on the weather front : implications of climate change for poverty reduction / Emmanuel Skoufias -- The forecast for poverty : a review of the evidence / Emmanuel Skoufias, Mariano Rabassa, and Sergio Olivieri -- Too little, too...