Welfare and Climate Risks in Coastal Bangladesh : The Impacts of Climatic Extremes on Multidimensional Poverty and the Wider Benefits of Climate Adaptation (English)

It is widely recognized that climate hazards impact the poor disproportionately. However, quantifying these disproportionate hazard impacts on a large scale is difficult given limited information on households’ location and socioeconomic characteristics, and incomplete quantitative frameworks to assess welfare impacts on households. This paper constructs a household-level multidimensional poverty index using a synthetic household dataset of 43 million...
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Verschuur,Jasper; Becher,Olivia Rose Elizabeth; Schwantje,Tom; Mathijs Van Ledden; Kazi,Swarna; Urrutia Duarte,Ignacio M..

Welfare and Climate Risks in Coastal Bangladesh : The Impacts of Climatic Extremes on Multidimensional Poverty and the Wider Benefits of Climate Adaptation (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10373 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099317103212330683

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