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Poverty is both a risk driver and consequence of disasters. These resources explore the nexus between poverty and disasters, as well as efforts to reduce disaster risks for vulnerable populations.

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2023

The effects of climate change in the poorest countries: Evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

This paper focuses on Lake Chad, which used to be the 11th largest lake in the world. Lake Chad, which is the size of El Salvador, Israel, or Massachusetts, slowly shrank by 90 percent for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990.
World Bank, the
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A look into poverty and disaster preparedness in Haiti

Most people would remember the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 claiming the lives of more than 220,000 Haitians. This tragedy brought the country's longstanding struggle with disasters to the forefront of global attention.
World Bank, the
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Why climate action is critical to reducing poverty and what it means for policy tradeoffs

Climate change, and the increase in temperature, rainfall extremes and storms that it brings will have a big impact on the ability of poor people to earn incomes.
World Bank, the
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2023

Climate change, economic production, inequality, and poverty

This paper seeks to fill the gap with regard to the quantification of the impact of climate change on future levels of poverty across different income thresholds and scenarios
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Quantifying the poverty impact of the 2022 floods in Pakistan

Exacerbated by climate change, the 2022 Monsoon Floods in Pakistan severely affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, especially in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
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Heat stress rises for Dhaka's poor as green spaces shrink

As temperatures soar in Bangladesh’s crowded capital, accessing cooler spots like parks is getting harder.
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2023

Welfare and climate risks in coastal Bangladesh: The impacts of climatic extremes on multidimensional poverty and the wider benefits of climate adaptation

This paper constructs a household-level multidimensional poverty index using a synthetic household dataset of 43 million people residing in the coastal zone of Bangladesh.
World Bank, the
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2023

A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities

This paper presents the Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment. It facilitates a participatory, people-centred approach to risk-informed decision making, using state-of-the-art procedures for physics-based hazard and engineering impact modelling.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Landslide on the Manali
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Protecting poor neighborhoods from landslide risk

As low-income, informal settlements bloom in the tropics, their risk of landslides increases. A new modeling tool incorporates urbanization factors to protect the region’s poorest neighborhoods.
American Geophysical Union Eos - AGU
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Affordable climate insurance is needed in the poorest and most vulnerable communities

It is critical that the insurance industry, the development community, and governments across the world come together even more closely to extend much-needed, affordable insurance to some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.
United Nations Development Programme