Search Results - "World development"

Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? by Eriksen, Siri, Schipper, E. Lisa F., Scoville-Simonds, Morgan, Vincent, Katharine, Adam, Hans Nicolai, Brooks, Nick, Harding, Brian, Khatri, Dil, Lenaerts, Lutgart, Liverman, Diana, Mills-Novoa, Megan, Mosberg, Marianne, Movik, Synne, Muok, Benard, Nightingale, Andrea, Ojha, Hemant, Sygna, Linda, Taylor, Marcus, Vogel, Coleen, West, Jennifer Joy

“…•Adaptation interventions may reinforce, redistribute or create new vulnerability.•Retrofitting adaptation into existing development agendas risks…”
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Adoption of agricultural technology in the developing world: A meta-analysis of the empirical literature by Ruzzante, Sacha, Labarta, Ricardo, Bilton, Amy

“…•Large farms are more likely to adopt improved crop varieties.•Land tenure security encourages the adoption of sustainable land management practices.•For…”
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A sustainable livelihoods framework for the 21st century by Natarajan, Nithya, Newsham, Andrew, Rigg, Jonathan, Suhardiman, Diana

“…•The sustainable livelihoods approach has become a key framework for academic research and in policy circles.•The sustainable livelihoods approach has also…”
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COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment by Kansiime, Monica K., Tambo, Justice A., Mugambi, Idah, Bundi, Mary, Kara, Augustine, Owuor, Charles

“…•We assessed COVID-19 implications on household income and food security using in Kenya and Uganda.•More than two-thirds of households experienced income…”
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Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires us to rethink development by Leach, Melissa, MacGregor, Hayley, Scoones, Ian, Wilkinson, Annie

“…•COVID-19 has exposed major faultlines and fragilities in current systems.•A structural-unruly duality characterises emergence, progression and…”
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Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Income, expenditure, savings, and job loss by Dang, Hai-Anh H., Viet Nguyen, Cuong

“…•This study examines COVID-19 impacts on gender gaps in economic outcomes.•Women to be 24 percent more likely to permanently lose their job than men.•Women…”
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Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated? by Lowder, Sarah K., Sánchez, Marco V., Bertini, Raffaele

“…•There are more than 608 million farms in the world.•Family farms produce roughly 80% of the world’s food in value terms.•Farms smaller than 2 hectares produce…”
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The impact of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance by Kling, Gerhard, Volz, Ulrich, Murinde, Victor, Ayas, Sibel

“…•First systematic investigation of the effect of climate vulnerability on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance.•Theoretically, shows how climate…”
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Economic complexity and greenhouse gas emissions by Romero, João P., Gramkow, Camila

“…•Economic complexity contributes to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity.•Production of complex goods is associated with lower emission intensities due to…”
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The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide by Lowder, Sarah K., Skoet, Jakob, Raney, Terri

“…•We estimate the number, size, and distribution of farms, and farmland worldwide.•Most of the world’s more than 570 million farms are small and…”
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Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains by Gardner, T.A., Benzie, M., Börner, J., Dawkins, E., Fick, S., Garrett, R., Godar, J., Grimard, A., Lake, S., Larsen, R.K., Mardas, N., McDermott, C.L., Meyfroidt, P., Osbeck, M., Persson, M., Sembres, T., Suavet, C., Strassburg, B., Trevisan, A., West, C., Wolvekamp, P.

“…•The links between transparency and sustainabilityare poorly understood.•We present a typology of information for supply chain governance.•The coverage of…”
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Economic growth, convergence, and world food demand and supply by Fukase, Emiko, Martin, Will

“…•Income convergence embodied in the widely used economic projections increases world food demand to 2050 by about a third.•Higher rates of convergence increase…”
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When food systems meet sustainability – Current narratives and implications for actions by Béné, Christophe, Oosterveer, Peter, Lamotte, Lea, Brouwer, Inge D., de Haan, Stef, Prager, Steve D., Talsma, Elise F., Khoury, Colin K.

“…•A review of the different narratives about food systems is proposed.•The way sustainability is defined in those narratives is reviewed.•Trade-offs between the…”
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COVID-19 and the rise of intimate partner violence by Aguero, Jorge M

“…•We study the impact of the stay-at-home policies to combat SARS-Covid-19 on domestic violence.•We focus on Peru, a country that imposed a strict lockdown and…”
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ICT and economic growth – Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries by Niebel, Thomas

“…•Empirical evidence on the role ICT plays in development based on a panel of 59 countries for the period 1995–2010.•Observed excess returns from ICT…”
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Sustainability and development after COVID-19 by Barbier, Edward B., Burgess, Joanne C.

“…•Before the pandemic progress toward some SDGs was lacking.•Post-pandemic here may be less financing for attaining the SDGs.•Affordable policies that meet…”
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Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence by Grohmann, Antonia, Klühs, Theres, Menkhoff, Lukas

“…While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear…”
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Are we on the right path to achieve the sustainable development goals? by Moyer, Jonathan D., Hedden, Steve

“…•The world is not on track to achieve many human-development related Sustainable Development Goals.•Some targets are especially challenging: access to safe…”
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Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda by Mahmud, Mahreen, Riley, Emma

“…•Compared to immediately before the lockdown, household income falls by 60%, with enterprise and wage income heavily hit.•Households respond by purchasing 50%…”
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COVID-19 and the case for global development by Oldekop, Johan A., Horner, Rory, Hulme, David, Adhikari, Roshan, Agarwal, Bina, Alford, Matthew, Bakewell, Oliver, Banks, Nicola, Barrientos, Stephanie, Bastia, Tanja, Bebbington, Anthony J., Das, Upasak, Dimova, Ralitza, Duncombe, Richard, Enns, Charis, Fielding, David, Foster, Christopher, Foster, Timothy, Frederiksen, Tomas, Gao, Ping, Gillespie, Tom, Heeks, Richard, Hickey, Sam, Hess, Martin, Jepson, Nicholas, Karamchedu, Ambarish, Kothari, Uma, Krishnan, Aarti, Lavers, Tom, Mamman, Aminu, Mitlin, Diana, Monazam Tabrizi, Negar, Müller, Tanja R., Nadvi, Khalid, Pasquali, Giovanni, Pritchard, Rose, Pruce, Kate, Rees, Chris, Renken, Jaco, Savoia, Antonio, Schindler, Seth, Surmeier, Annika, Tampubolon, Gindo, Tyce, Matthew, Unnikrishnan, Vidhya, Zhang, Yin-Fang

“…COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge…”
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