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Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries
Nature Communications, 2021 Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty.
Jun Rentschler, M. Salhab, B. Jafino
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Ending extreme poverty has a negligible impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Nature, 2023 Growing consumption is both necessary to end extreme poverty^ 1 and one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions^ 2 , creating a potential tension between alleviating poverty and limiting global warming.
Philip Wollburg +2 more
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The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance This study demonstrates the causal impact of a poverty reduction intervention on early childhood brain activity. Data from the Baby’s First Years study, a randomized control trial, show that a predictable, monthly unconditional cash transfer
Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree +8 more
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Can farmland transfer reduce vulnerability to poverty among the mid-aged and elderly in rural China?
Heliyon, 2023 Exploring the influence of farmland transfer on poverty among the mid-aged and elderly rural households is of great value in preventing them from returning to poverty and in solving the problem of rural poverty.
Xiaojun Lu, Qun Wang, Yunan Wang
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Poverty and economic decision making: a review of scarcity theory
Theory and Decision, 2021 Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity theory proposes that poverty itself induces a scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the poor into suboptimal decisions and behaviors.
Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, G. Antonides
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Economic Change and Restructuring, 2022 Realizing green economic recovery and eradicating energy poverty have become China’s strategic priorities in the post-COVID-19 era. In the context of the active advocacy of green finance, to empirically investigate whether green finance can help ...
Jun Zhao, Jianda Wang, Kangyin Dong
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Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 Climate change is likely to worsen poverty, and agriculture-dependent groups and poorest countries are at the greatest risk. Farmers’ have begun developing and implementing climate change adaptations.
U. Khanal +4 more
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Period poverty: why it should be everybody’s business
Journal of global health reports, 2022 Period poverty, defined as a lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, waste management, and education, affects many women globally causing physical, mental, and emotional challenges.
J. Michel +3 more
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Global exposure to flood risk and poverty
Nature Communications, 2022 Flooding is a pervasive natural hazard, with new research demonstrating that more than one in five people around the world live in areas directly exposed to 1-in-100 year flood risk.
T. McDermott
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Utilities of Artificial Intelligence in Poverty Prediction: A Review
Sustainability, 2022 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is generating new horizons in one of the biggest challenges in the world’s society—poverty. Our goal is to investigate utilities of AI in poverty prediction via finding answers to the following research questions: (1) How ...
Aziza Usmanova +3 more
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