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, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433021
, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change …
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Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to … the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …
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study poverty traps in the light of climate change. Global pollution is a negative externality of capital accumulation in … both world regions, and climate change causes damages to the stock of physical capital in the more vulnerable South. Non … threshold effects, possibly leading to a long-run equilibrium with persistent poverty. Climate policy in the North that aims to …
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the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas … eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … people between 1990 and 2015. The poverty goal was met fully, ahead of schedule, and substantive progress was made toward the …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …
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