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To leave or not to leave? : climate change, exit, and voice on a Pacific Island

Noy, Ilan - 2016

Observers repeatedly predict that climate change will lead and is already causing massive migration with very large numbers of people forced to leave their homes in cataclysmic waves of climate refugees. Yet, most of the empirical research on the contemporary link between climate change and...

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Climate, Urbanization, and Conflict : The Effects of Weather Shocks and Floods on Urban Social Disorder

Castells-Quintana, David - 2020

In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...

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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder

Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019

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To Leave or Not to Leave? Climate Change, Exit, and Voice on a Pacific Island

Noy, Ilan - 2021

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Japanese tsunami debris and the threat to sustainable tourism in the Hawaiian Islands

Ghaderi, Zahed; Henderson, Joan C. - In: Tourism management perspectives : TMP 8 (2013), pp. 98-105

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Island Insights : Surging Seas and Increasing Rains -- Analyzing Flood Risks in Sao Tome and Principe, District by District

World Bank Group - 2024

This study's aim was to assess the growing flood risk Sao Tome and Principe (STP) faces due to climate change. It … high-resolution national flood hazard data for the present climate (2020) and two projected climates (in 2050 and 2080 … no additional climate policy under the SSP3 socioeconomic development narrative. This flood risk assessment examines the …

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Women in African Agriculture : Integrating Women Into Value Chains to Build a Stronger Sector

Njiraini, Georgina Wambui; Ngigi, Marther W.; Baraké, … - 2018

Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa’s agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the labor, but facing significant obstacles, including unequal access to land, traditional division of labor, restrictions on mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial...

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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture

Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010

This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...

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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

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The great reversal

Chrimes, Tommy; Gootjes, Bram; Kose, M. Ayhan; Wheeler, … - 2024

The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has led to a reversal in development by exacerbating the challenges facing the most vulnerable 75 economies eligible for concessional loans and grants from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). Over 2020-24, per...

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