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The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies (Directions in Development)
Author(s): Emmanuel Skoufias (Author)
- Publisher: World Bank Publications
- Publication Date: 2 Aug. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0821396110
- ISBN-13: 9780821396117
Book Description
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. On the Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies surveys the relevant research on how climate change may affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments’ risk management programs
