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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …

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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009

The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

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Friends or foes? : the impact of voluntary sustainability standards on agricultural exports of developing countries

Dolabella, Marcelo; Saeteros, Mario - 2024

Private actors have been actively working on standards that certify products and their production processes to minimize negative externalities. The number of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) has been increasing over the last few decades, raising interest in understanding their impact on...

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The impact of extreme weather events on education

Groppo, Valeria; Krähnert, Kati - 2015

This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … climate data as well as household-level livestock losses. Exposure to weather shocks during preschool age (as opposed to …

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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households

Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023

This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...

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Firm Adaptation to Climate Change

Grover, Arti; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather …

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The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Education

Groppo, Valeria - 2015

This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … comprehensive retrospective information on households' historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … climate data as well as household-level livestock losses. Exposure to weather shocks during preschool age (as opposed to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010169

Chapter 62 International Trade Policies Affecting Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries

Anderson, Kym - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3215-3252). 2010

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic...

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Climatic Shocks and Food Security : The Role of Foreign Aid

Kinda, Somlanare - 2016

Little is known about the role that foreign aid can play in dampening the effect of climate change. This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effect of climatic shocks on food security in developing countries. Because foreign aid is an important source of revenue for...

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