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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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This working paper was written as input for the Asian Development Outlook 2019. It reviews the literature at the … intersection of disasters and migration in Asia and details the story of how disasters may affect mobility, from displacement to … impacts on mobility because of climate-related disasters and delves into the likely trends. Ultimately, it aims to show the …
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How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by … over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that remittances are slow to respond to natural disasters, unresponsive to outbreaks … a good bulwark against natural disasters and global financial crises in SSA. …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
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The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the most recent scientific and demographic information, they estimate the future impact of climate...
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the developing countries have non-linear effects. Some of the non-linear effects vanish if indicators for disasters …
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the developing countries have non-linear effects. Some of the non-linear effects vanish if indicators for disasters …
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This working paper was written as input for the Asian Development Outlook 2019. It reviews the literature at the … intersection of disasters and migration in Asia and details the story of how disasters may affect mobility, from displacement to … impacts on mobility because of climate-related disasters and delves into the likely trends. Ultimately, it aims to show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026173
refers to Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to shed light on the gendered nature of vulnerability and resilience …. Contradictions identified between heightened vulnerability at the level of individual women and strengthened resilience of the …
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as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic …
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