Poverty reduction in a changing climate /

"Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dulal, Hari Bansha, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2013]
Temas:
Poverty > Environmental aspects > Developing countries.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Sustainable development > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects
Poverty > Environmental aspects
Sustainable development > Economic aspects
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the contributors
  • Preface
  • Inequality, politics, and the spatial dimensions of poverty
  • Markets, the state and the dynamics of inequality in Latin America :
  • Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay / Nora Lustig and Luis F. Lopez-Calva
  • Politics and the room to manoeuvre : democracy, social opportunity and
  • Poverty in India / Subrata K. Mitra, Jivanta Schöttli, Markus Pauli
  • The importance of place and space : the spatial dimensions of poverty and development policy / Kate Bird, Kate Higgins
  • Poverty reduction challenges
  • Assessing the potential impact on poverty of rising cereals prices : the case of Mali / George Joseph and Quentin Wodon
  • Assessing the potential impact of higher fertilizer use on poverty among farm households : illustration for Rwanda / Enrique Hennings and Quentin Wodon
  • Poverty reduction challenges in South Asia / Arup Mitra
  • Official development assistance : does it reduce poverty? / John Weiss
  • Poverty reduction instruments, policies, and lessons learnt
  • Bolsa família, its design, its impacts and possibilities for the future / Sergei Soares
  • The biodiversity conservation : an effective mechanism for poverty alleviation? / Dilys Roe and Terry Sunderland
  • Tracing the redd bullet : implications of market-based forest conservation mechanisms for poverty alleviation in developing countries / Bryan R. Bushley and Rishikesh R. Bhandary
  • Banking on social institutions for poverty reduction / Hari B. Dulal and Roberto Foa
  • Climate change adaptation and the international aid regime prospects for policy convergence / Craig Johnson
  • Lessons on equitable growth : stories of progress in Vietnam, Mauritius, and Malawi / Milo Vandemoortele and Kate Bird
  • Index.

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