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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Skoufias, Emmanuel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington D.C. : World Bank, ©2012.
Series:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Poverty.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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