The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies
The continued decline in global poverty over the past 100 years particularly in the past three decades is a remarkable achievement. In 1981, 52 percent of the world population lived on less than $1.25 a day. By 2005, that rate had been cut in half,...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/07/16546569/poverty-welfare-impacts-climate-change-quantifying-effects-identifying-adaptation-strategies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9384 |