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This paper quantifies the impact of inundation risk and salinization on the family structure and economic welfare of coastal households in Bangladesh. These households are already on the "front line" of climate change, so their adaptation presages the future for hundreds of millions of families worldwide who will face similar threats by 2100. The analysis is based on a household decision model that relates spatial deployment of working-age...
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Dasgupta,Susmita; Hossain, Md. Moqbul; Huq,Mainul; Wheeler, David.

Facing the hungry tide : climate change, livelihood threats, and household responses in coastal Bangladesh (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP),Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 7148 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/558921468006267567/Facing-the-hungry-tide-climate-change-livelihood-threats-and-household-responses-in-coastal-Bangladesh

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