The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change : quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies /

Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge poverty reduction efforts. This book surveys the relevant research on how climate change may affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skoufias, Emmanuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington D.C. : World Bank, ©2012.
Colección:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Poverty.
Temas:
Poverty > Developing countries.
Income distribution > Developing countries.
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Climatic changes > Social aspects
Income distribution
Poverty
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the authors
  • Abbreviations
  • Disquiet on the weather front : implications of climate change for poverty reduction / Emmanuel Skoufias
  • The forecast for poverty : a review of the evidence / Emmanuel Skoufias, Mariano Rabassa, and Sergio Olivieri
  • Too little, too late : welfare impacts of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia / Emmanuel Skoufias, B. Essah-Nssah, and Roy S. Katayama
  • Timing is everything : how weather shocks affect household welfare in rural Mexico / Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha
  • Growing precious resources : how weather shocks affect child height in rural Mexico / Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha.

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