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Publications used in the preparation of the WESS
2016
Analytical dimensions of inequality in integrated climate impact assessment
- Marco V. Sánchez
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Assessing climate change impact, adaptation, vulnerability, and food security of farm households: The AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Approach
- John M. Antle and Roberto O. Valdivia
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Building resilience to climate change: Three principles at the core of the policy process
- Helena Afonso, Marcelo Lafleur and Sergio Vieira
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Climate change and social inequality
- S. Nazrul Islam and John Winkel
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Enhanced international cooperation on adaptation technologies and statistics for sustainable development
- Alex Julca
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Identifying opportunities in a changing climate: Research priorities for reducing vulnerabiliy, poverty and inequality
- Luis Carlos Jemio and Lykke E. Andersen
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Sustainable pathways, climate change and the evolution of inequalities
- Israel Osorio Rodarte
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The effects of changes in flooding, sea level rise in salinity on multidimensional inequality
- Golam Rabbani and Seleemul Huq
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The effects of changes in rainfall patterns, water availability, and desertification on multidimensional inequality
- Julie A. Silva
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Unequal impacts of climate hazards: needs for building climate resilience for sustainable development
- Hiroshi Kawamura
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What data analytics are needed to identify and monitor populations vulnerable to climate change in developing regions?
- Robert Johnston
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2015
Peace and Stability as Enablers for and Outcome of Development
- Pingfan Hong
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Transforming MDG Growth Patterns for SGDs
- Pingfan Hong
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2014
The role of selected policy instruments in reducing income inequality
- Giovanni Andrea Cornia
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Land Ownership Patterns and Income inequality in Southern Africa
- Sam Moyo
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Sustainability and Inequality
- Frances Stewart
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2013
Policy and research issues on finance and growth for Sub- Saharan Africa
- Stephany Griffith-Jones and Ewa Karwowski with Nshalati Hlungwane
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Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda
- Nazrul Islam
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Human Development in an environmentally constrained world in the post- 2015 era.
- John Toye
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Global Food and Nutrition Scenarios
- Millennium Institute
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Inter-temporal macroeconomic trade-offs and payoffs of human development strategies: An economy-wide modelling analysis
- Marco V. Sánchez and Martín Cicowiez
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Inequalities on the rise
- Sergio Vieira
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2012
Absorbing Innovative Financial Flows: Looking at Asia
- Rehman Sobhan
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Adopting a Currency Transaction Tax When Avoidance is a Possibility: Which Currencies Would Take the Lead and What Rate Could they Charge?
- David Stubbs
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Aid Securitization: Beyond IFFIm
- Suhas Ketkar
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Can remittances support development finance
in developing countries?
- Alex Julca
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Global Health Initiatives and Aid Effectiveness
in the Health Sector
- Oliver Schwank
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Half a Century of Proposals for
'Innovative' Development Financing
- Barry Herman
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Innovative Development Finance:
The Latin American Experience
- Ricardo Gottschalk
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International Tax Cooperation and
Innovative Development Finance
- Valpy FitzGerald
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Overcoming the Technical and Political Difficulties of Using SDRs for Development Purposes
- Bilge Erten
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2011
Agricultural innovation for food security and environmental sustainability in the context of the recent economic crisis: Why a gender perspective?
- Diana Alarcón and Christina Bodouroglou
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Harnessing Energy-Technology Innovation in Developing Countries to Achieve Sustainable Prosperity
- J.R. Siegel and Aaron Strong
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Innovative Systems to Reverse Soil Degradation and Improve Water Management for Enhanced Food Security: Experiences from African Countries
- Bashir Jama, Abednego Kiwia and James Mutegi
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Key Determinants of Technological Capabilities for a Green Economy in Emerging Economies
- Xiaolan Fu
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Lessons from the History of Technology and Global Change for the Emerging Clean Technology Cluster
- Charlie Wilson and Arnulf Grubler
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Philosophical and Social Transformations Necessary for the Green Economy
- Tim Jackson
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Shaping Agricultural Innovation Systems Responsive to Food Insecurity and Climate Change
- Sally Brooks and Michael Loevinsohn
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Sustainable agricultural innovation systems (SAIS) for food security and green economies
- Diana Alarcón and Christina Bodouroglou
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2010
Development in an interdependent world:
old issues, new directions?
- John Toye
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Economic integration, inequality and growth: Theory and comparative assessment
- Giovanni Andrea Cornia
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Energy Intensity, Greenhouse Gas, and Global Warming
- Lance Taylor
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From Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth:
The Continuing Relevance of Pro-Poor Policy Alternatives
- Alfredo Saad Filho
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International Tax Cooperation and International
Development Finance
- Valpy FitzGerald
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Labour Markets Trends, Financial Globalization and the current crisis in Developing Countries
- Rolph van der Hoeven
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Making Globalization Sustainable
- Tariq Banuri
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New State Practices at a Time of System Disturbance and the Nasty Business of Protectionism—The Expectation for Global Demand Management
- Daniel Drache
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Policy coherence and coordination: Rebalancing stabilization and developmental policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
- ECLAC
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Policy coherence in development policy and international cooperation
- UNRISD
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Reforming the International Monetary System
- Jane D'Arista and Korkut Erturk
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Regional Economic Cooperation in Asia: Current situation and future prospects
- ESCAP
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Reinventing Globalization: Fair is Feasible
- Deepak Nayyar
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Social Policy Politics: The Role of Ideas, Conflict, and Process
- Merilee S. Grindle
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The Basic Needs Development Strategy
- Louis Emmerij
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The new aid paradigm: A case of policy incoherence
- Geske Dijkstra
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The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture
- Tony Addison, Channing Arndt, and Finn Tarp
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Trade Policy in the Post—Neoliberal Era
- James Galbraith and Sara Hsu
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2009
Adapting to climate change in developing countries: institutional and policy responses for urbanizing societies
- E. Lisa F. Schipper
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Adaptation to Climate Change:
Re-examining climate and development risks
- Shiv Someshwar
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Climate change financing: Developing countries' options and challenges for mitigation and adaptation
- Fernando Prada
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Regional Distribution of the Costs and benefits of Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation
- David Evans and Chris Hope
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Projections Regarding Climate Change and Development
- Elizabeth A. Stanton and Frank Ackerman
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Supportive measures and policies for developing countries:
a paradigm shift
- Nebojsa Nakicenovic
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The role of private investment in increasing climate friendly technologies in developing countries
- Stephany Griffith-Jones, Merylyn Hedger and Leah Stokes
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Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer Issues in the Context of Climate Change
- Sangeeta Shashikant
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2008
Assessing the success of microinsurance programmes in meeting the insurance needs of the poor
- Paul Mosley
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Financial Instability and Countercyclical Policy
- Yilmaz Akyüz
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Globalization, Offshoring and Economic Insecurity
in Industrialized Countries
- William Milberg and Deborah Schöller
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Insurance against Losses from Natural Disasters
in Developing Countries
- Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer and Reinhard Mechler
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Insurance, Credit and Safety Nets for the Poor
in a World of Risk
- Daniel Clarke and Stefan Dercon
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Post-Conflict Countries: Aid Effectiveness
and Permanent Peace
- M. Panić
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization
and Reconstruction
- James K. Boyce
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The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare
and Policy Responses
- Patricia Justino
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2007
Population Aging, Wealth, and Economic Growth: Demographic Dividends and Public Policy
- Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason
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Projection of health care expenditure by disease:
a case study from Australia
- Theo Vos, John Goss, Stephen Begg and Nicholas Mann
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Leonardo Gasparini, Javier Alejo, Francisco Haimovich, Sergio Olivieri
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The Implications of Aging for the Structure and Stability
of Financial Markets
- Jane D'Arista
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Population Ageing and Health Expenditure:
Sri Lanka 2001-2101
- Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya and Associates
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2006
Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates, Economic Structures,
and Sources of Demand
- Codrina Rada and Lance Taylor
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Governance, Economic Growth and Development
since the 1960s
- Mushtaq H. Khan
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Real Income Stagnation of Countries,1960-2001
- Sanjay G. Reddy and Camelia Minoiu
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Turning Swords to Ploughshares & Little Acorns to Tall Trees: the Conflict-Growth Nexus & the Poverty of Nations
- S, Mansoob Murshed
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Financial Development and Economic Growth: a Critical View
- Valpy FitzGerald
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Have Collapses in Infrastructure Spending led to
Cross-Country Divergence in per Capita GDP?
- Francisco Rodríguez
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Growth Empirics when the World is not Simple
- Francisco Rodríguez
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Openness and Growth: What have we Learned?
- Francisco Rodríguez
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Growth after Globalisation: a 'Structuralist-Kaldorian' Game
of Musical Chairs?
- José Gabriel Palma
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Industrial Policy and Growth Helen Shapiro
- Helen Shapiro
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Development Aid and Economic Growth:
a Positive Long-Run Relation
- Sanjay G. Reddy and Camelia Minoiu
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