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Finance and Climate Resilience : Evidence from the Long 1950s US Drought

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramcharan, Rodney - 2023

We study how the availability of credit shapes adaptation to a climatic shock, specifically, the long 1950s US drought …. We find that bank lending, net immigration, and population growth decline sharply in drought exposed areas with limited … initial access to bank finance. In contrast, agricultural investment and long-run productivity increase more in drought …

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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

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HDR 2007/2008 - Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even...

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Bad credit, no problem? : credit and labor market consequences of bad credit reports

Dobbie, Will; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Mahoney, Neale; … - 2017 - Revised May 2017

Credit reports are used in nearly all consumer lending decisions and, increasingly, in hiring decisions in the labor market, but the impact of a bad credit report is largely unknown. We study the effects of credit reports on financial and labor market outcomes using a difference-in-differences...

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Bad Credit, No Problem? Credit and Labor Market Consequences of Bad Credit Reports

Dobbie, Will - 2019

We study the financial and labor market impacts of bad credit reports. Using difference-in-differences variation from the staggered removal of bankruptcy flags, we show that bankruptcy flag removal leads to economically large increases in credit limits and borrowing. Using administrative tax...

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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …

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Climate, Environment, Economy, Entropy

Bennewitz, Jürgen - 2007

A main reason for our present climate problems are not the basic economical requirements of man but the exponential increasing world population and their ever growing demand for luxury far beyond the necessary basic economical needs. It is suggested to put the world's attention on the basic...

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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...

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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty

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The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...

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HDR 2004 - Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World

UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …

Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...

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