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    Disasters, Poverty, and Coping Strategies: The Framework and Empirical Evidence from Micro/Household Data - Philippine Case

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    This study analyzed the interactions between natural disasters and household poverty and discussed the coping strategies used by households in response to natural disasters in the Philippines. It used data from the 2011 CBMS Household Profile Survey for Pasay City, Metro Manila and results of relevant past studies.
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    Poverty environment nexus: an investigation of linkage and policy implications

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008
    There is a clear connection between environment and poverty and it can hardly be over emphasised. The more visible environmental problems are mostly seen in the case of exhaustive resources which are in constant danger of depletion from excessive use, particularly in a developing country such as Bangladesh.
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    World Development Report 2015: mind, society, and behavior

    World Bank, 2015
    This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.
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    The environment-poverty nexus: an institutional analysis

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000
    While there are clearly hypothesized links between poverty and degradation, attempts to demonstrate such links empirically have yielded mixed results. This paper aims at determining the nature, causes and impacts of poverty in Pakistan.
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    The impact of natural disasters on income and poverty: framework and some evidence from Philippine households

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Although understanding the impact of natural disasters on income and poverty at the household level is important for disaster-prone and poverty-stricken countries, empirical works on the subject have been limited so far. A major reason behind this is that standard national household surveys generally do not include the collection of data and information on natural disasters.
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    Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2014: 45th edition

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This annual statistical publication presents the latest available indicators for the 48 regional ADB members. It contains analyses and statistical tables on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and eight other economic, financial, social, and environmental themes.
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    Making it happen: Oxfam’s proposals for the post-2015 framework

    Oxfam, 2014
    This paper puts forwards Oxfam’s proposals for what new goals and targets should be included in the post-2015 development agenda, and how they can be designed to bring about lasting change.
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    Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Ethiopia pilot fieldwork report

    Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2014
    To date there has been little formal, empirical research that has been conducted on capacity building for disaster risk management (DRM), and as a result international actors lack robust, evidence-based guidance on how capacity for DRM can be effectively generated at national and local levels.
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    Strategic research into national and local capacity building for disaster risk management: literature review version 1

    Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2014
    This literature review has been conducted by Oxford Policy Management and the University of East Anglia as part of a multi-donor research project led by IFRC focusing on Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management.
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    Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)

    The Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) is a global alliance and an initiative of the European Union (EU), launched in 2007 and coordinated by the European Commission (EC), aimed at strengthening

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