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One-fifth of the world's population at high risk from climate-related hazards Open
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. When these events occur, they threaten lives and livelihoods. Here we estimate the global population at high risk from climate-related hazards by examining…
One-fifth of the world's population at high risk from climate-related hazards Open
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. When these events occur, they threaten lives and livelihoods. Here we estimate the global population at high risk from climate-related hazards by examining…
Counting People Exposed to, Vulnerable to, or at High Risk From Climate Shocks: A Methodology Open
Based on global datasets, 4.5 billion people were exposed to extreme weather events (flood, drought, cyclone, or heatwave) in 2019, an increase from 4 billion in 2010. Among exposed people in 2019, 2.3 billion people lived with less than $…
Climate and Equity: A Framework to Guide Policy Action Open
Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable households is essential to hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure and vulnerability framework that …
Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda Open
Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior. These failures can partly be traced to the importance of economies of s…
Strengthening producer organizations to increase market access of smallholder farmers in Uganda Open
Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior. These failures can partly be traced to the importance of economies of s…
Delayed Premium Payment, Insurance Adoption, and Household Investment in Rural China Open
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to examine the impacts of delayed premium payment on insurance uptake and the subsequent investment decisions among smallholder farmers in rural China. Our results show uptake among those with the d…
What Works for Working Women? : Understanding Female Labor Force Participation in Urban Bangladesh Open
This paper explores the factors that \n constrain women in slums and low-income neighborhoods in \n Dhaka from engaging in the labor market and supplying their \n labor to wage earning or self-employment. It uses unique \n individual-level…
Spatial and Structural Changes in Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh from 2000 to 2016: An Assessment Open
Bangladesh has documented consistent reductions in poverty since 2000 and has also seen considerable transformation in the sector and location of economic activities. This paper exploits variation in sectoral growth and migration across di…
Understanding the Changing East-West Divide in Bangladesh: Insights from Poverty Decomposition Analysis Open
Bangladesh has continued to make remarkable progress in reducing poverty since 2010. In some regards, poverty reduction has continued in a manner consistent with the previous decade. However, important differences emerge when trends are ex…
What Works for Working Women? Unpacking the Constraints on Female Labour Force Participation in Bangladesh Open
During the last five years, urban poverty reduction in Bangladesh has stagnated and, perhaps without coincidence, this has also been a period in which urban female labour force participation (FLFP) rates have also fallen. Understanding fac…
Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda Open
This paper estimates the profitability \n of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic \n evidence on the yield returns to inputs from experimental \n fields, as well as output price data from local markets \n between 2000 and…
Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty: Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 Open
In the past 10 years, Ethiopia \n experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public \n goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains \n in well-being for many households. This paper exploits \n variation in sectoral…
With a little help: shocks, agricultural income, and welfare in Uganda Open
Global poverty is becoming increasingly \n concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and among households \n engaged in subsistence agriculture in environments \n characterized by uncertainty. Understanding how to achieve \n sustainable increases…
Insuring against droughts: Evidence on agricultural intensification and index insurance demand from a randomized evaluation in rural Bangladesh Open
It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs. Index insurance provides a means for managing risk without the burdens of asymmetric information and high tran…