On the poverty and welfare impacts of climate change
Subtitle: quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies
By: Emmanuel Skoufias, editor
Series: Directions in development
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821396117; 9780821396124
Subjects: Climatic changes; Poverty; Income distribution
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: About the authors; title: Abbreviations; title: Disquiet on the weather front : implications of climate change for poverty reduction / Emmanuel Skoufias; title: The forecast for poverty : a review of the evidence / Emmanuel Skoufias, Mariano Rabassa, and Sergio Olivieri; title: Too little, too late : welfare impacts of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia / Emmanuel Skoufias, B. Essah-Nssah, and Roy S. Katayama; title: Timing is everything : how weather shocks affect household welfare in rural Mexico / Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha; title: Growing precious resources : how weather shocks affect child height in rural Mexico / Emmanuel Skoufias and Katja Vinha.