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The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
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This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid … development, irrigation, research, extension, and higher education. However, except for the World Bank's Operations Evaluation … results. Aid to agriculture from nearly all donors fell precipitously beginning in the mid-1980s despite clear evidence that …
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Development planners and project managers have used a wide variety of tools to manage a broad range of environmental risks, including those posed by climate variability, for a long time. Some of these tools have also now been modified to take into account the risks posed by climate change. At...
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This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid...
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policies. After the 2030s, the effects of climate change are likely to be significant, with agriculture and food production …
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This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
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In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
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The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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) according to the achieved level of environmental performance in agriculture and climate change in 2020. The data used for this … statistical analysis were employed. The study focuses on Climate change and Agriculture, two factors of the Ecosystem Vitality … between the two environmental policy areas, agriculture and climate change. Also, the cluster analysis showed that most of the …
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