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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2017África austral, África subsahariana, África, Mozambique
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2015África occidental, África subsahariana, África, Níger
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2015Fiji, Islas Salomón, Papua Nueva Guinea
Climate change projections internationally accepted as being reliable indicate that most countries in the Pacific region will suffer large-scale negative impacts from climate change. These impacts are likely to include elevated air and sea-surface temperatures, increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, and intensification of extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones and El Niño-related droughts.
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresAbril, 2008Global
During the 20th century hunger has become a problem of poverty amidst plenty rather than absolute food scarcity. The question is whether this will remain so or whether the hunger of the poor will once more be exacerbated by rising food prices. In this paper we discuss biophysical conditions, social forces and non-linear interactions that may critically influence the global availability of food in the long term.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosPublicación revisada por paresOctubre, 2016Global
The developing world has made substantial progress in reducing hunger since 2000. The 2016 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 29 percent. Yet this progress has been uneven, and great disparities in hunger continue to exist at the regional, national, and subnational levels.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosFebrero, 2012África subsahariana, América central, América del Sur, Asia oriental, Caribe, Oceanía, Asia meridional
Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with a high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050 these numbers are likely to more than double, leading to a greater concentration of hazard risk in many of the world's cities. The authors discuss what sets hazard risk in urban areas apart, summarize estimates of valuation of hazard risk, and discuss implications for individual mitigation and public policy.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosJunio, 2013India, Asia meridional
Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983–1999 period, we find that urbanization has a substantial and systematic poverty-reducing effect in the surrounding rural areas.
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Views of Foreign Investors
Informes e investigacionesRecursos y herramientas de capacitaciónNoviembre, 2015Kirguistán, Europa, Asia centralThe World Bank Group’s investment climate project conducted a survey of foreign investors in the Kyrgyz Republic - both those currently operating and those that have terminated their operations for various reasons. The purpose of the survey was to assess selected aspects of the investment policy and legal environment in place in the Kyrgyz Republic, so as to determine whether the current regulations are investment-conducive or otherwise.
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A Public-Private Partnerships Journal
Informes e investigacionesArtículos de revistas y librosJunio, 2015The latest issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the Innovation. “An age of constant invention naturally begets one of constant failure,”the New York Times Magazine declared in a recent story called “Welcometo the Failure Age.” Its core premise—that innovation is inextricably linked with failure—may be a fresh insight for the high-tech era, but has long been understood by those who work in infrastructure. To state the obvious:for those of us in infrastructure PPPs, failure is not a novel concept.Innovation is.
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The Case of Mozambique
Informes e investigacionesArtículos de revistas y librosJulio, 2016Mozambique, África, África subsaharianaAlmost a decade after a spike in land demand following the 2007–08 commodity boom, evidence on impacts of this phenomenon remains limited and mostly case study based. We show that information on location and start data of large farms, combined with existing smallholder farm surveys, allows to complement this with a difference-in-difference approach to systematically assess spillovers from large farm establishment.
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