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World Bank
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About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.
Topics: Population, Poverty, Free trade, Productivity, Commercial policy
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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed to address human vulnerability to climate change, drawing upon social risk management and asset-based approaches, the conceptual framework provides a unifying lens to examine links between risks, adaptation, and vulnerability.
Abstract: This paper presents and applies a conceptual framework to address human vulnerability to climate change. Drawing upon social risk management and asset-based approaches, the conceptual framework provides a unifying lens to examine links between risks, adaptation, and vulnerability. The result is an integrated approach to increase the capacity of society to manage climate risks with a view to reduce the vulnerability of households and maintain or increase the opportunities for sustainable development. We identify ‘no-regrets’ adaptation interventions, meaning actions that generate net social benefits under all future scenarios of climate change and impacts. We also make the case for greater support for community-based adaptation and social protection and propose a research agenda.
428 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is not only the level of corruption but also the nature of corruption that affects investment, and that corruption regimes that are more predictable have less negative impact on investment than those that are less predictable.
428 citations
TL;DR: Fernandes et al. as mentioned in this paper explored Colombian trade policy from 1977-91, a period of substantial variation in protection across industries, to examine whether increased exposure to foreign competition generates plant-level productivity gains.
427 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) to improve and expand the quantification of personal health-care access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015.
427 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between investment, market valuation, and proxies for fundamentals over the last 90 years and find that a limited role of market valuation has been played by investment during the episodes associated with the crashes of 1929 and 1987.
Abstract: Should managers, when taking investment decisions, follow the signals given by the stock market even when those do not coincide with their own assessment of fundamentals? Do they? In this paper we review theoretical arguments and examine the empirical evidence. First, we look at the relation between investment, market valuation, and proxies for fundamentals over the last 90 years. Second, we look at the behavior of investment during the episodes associated with the crashes of 1929 and 1987. We find a limited role of market valuation, given fundamentals.
427 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph E. Stiglitz | 164 | 1142 | 152469 |
| Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
| Dan J. Stein | 142 | 1727 | 132718 |
| Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
| Elinor Ostrom | 126 | 430 | 104959 |
| David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
| Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
| Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
| Martin Ravallion | 115 | 570 | 55380 |
| Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
| Angus Deaton | 110 | 363 | 66325 |
| Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
| Lawrence H. Summers | 102 | 285 | 58555 |
| Shang-Jin Wei | 101 | 415 | 39112 |
| Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |