Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific Shamshad Akhtar; Bambang Susantono; Haoliang Xu, United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (2018) This report explores how resilience thinking can strengthen public policy to enable the transformation towards sustainable societies envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development […]
Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture
Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture Manuel Barange, Tarûb Bahri, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2018) This technical paper provides the most up-to-date information on the disaggregated impacts of climate change for marine and inland fisheries, and aquaculture, in the context of poverty alleviation and the differential dependency of countries […]
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty Inchauste, Gabriela; Azevedo, João Pedro; Essama-Nssah, The World Bank (2014) Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions […]