Showing posts with label Vulnerability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vulnerability. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Assorted Links on Migration
- Brazil as Immigration Destination (via Brandon Fuller)
- The Global Brain Trade
- Two CASA Working Papers on modelling human migration (here and here)
- Migration and the resilience and vulnerability of place
- New journal Migration and Development
- Which developing countries received the most remittances in 2012?
- Immigration and the Housing Problem in Britain (lecture)
- Winners and losers in the battle for immigrant talent (via Population Econ)
- How well-educated are your immigrants?
Monday, November 12, 2012
Poor Economics
I have just finished reading Poor Economics, a book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (both professors of Economics at MIT).* It brings into a sharp perspective the complex economic lives of the poor and the failure of some anti-poverty policies. It also brings up several creative studies, including some that have used randomized controlled trials. It's a really good reading!
There is a website of the book where you can have a glimpse of it and explore interactive charts. Or, you may watch a short presentantion by Esther Duflo:
*Thank you Lucas Mation for the gift!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Human Vulnerability and Climate Change
Jason Samson and his team have just published a promising paper that maps human vulnerability to climate change. The local vulnerabilities were based on ecological and demographic models using census data covering close to 97 per-cent of the world’s population.
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