Dorte Verner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4315330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorte Verner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorte |
| FAMILY NAME | Verner |
| SIGNATURE | VERNER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Droughts and Agriculture in Lebanon
This volume examines the causes and consequences of drought on Lebanon’s agriculture. Lebanon is getting hotter and dryer. Projections show droughts will likely become more frequent and severe. Climate change, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) impact the occurrence of drought to varying degrees, with NAO being the biggest short-term driver and climate change being the biggest long-term driver. The drier…
Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World
This Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World is presents detailed case studies on the impacts of climate change in the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen that were summarized. The Arab region is already being impacted by climate change through more frequent cyclones, floods, and prolonged droughts. Thousands of rural producers have seen their crops and herds devastated by extreme conditions, and have been forced to aba…
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
No AccessMENA Development Report13 Oct 2013Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab CountriesA Case for Adaptation Governance and Leadership in Building Climate ResilienceAuthors/Editors: Dorte VernerDorte Vernerhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9459-5AboutView ChaptersPDF (16.2 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:In the Arab countries, climate change is a risk to…
The Invisible Poor
Many of the poorest Argentines are invisible in official statistics. Four million rural residents and another 12 million in small urban areas lie outside the reach of the Permanent Household Survey (EPH), which is the basis for poverty figures and most data on social conditions in the country. According to the best estimate, roughly a third of rural residents, more than a million people, live in poverty. The urban bias common too many countries h…
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous peoples across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Although the overall economic impact of climate change on gross domestic product (GDP) is significant, what is particularly problematic is that it falls disproportionately on the poor including indigenous peoples, who constitute about 6.5 percent of the population in the region and are among its poore…
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples - Lessons from Recent Experiences in Eco and Ethno Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean
The trend toward new tourism niches in Latin America and the Caribbean (hereafter, LAC) has brought benefits, but also costs to the region's indigenous peoples. As the World Bank social and environmental portfolios in LAC reveal, work with indigenous groups has frequently favored tourism as a strategy for empowerment. At the same time, urban, rural development and infrastructure projects have also increased tourism opportunities, including visits…
Crime And Violence In Development
The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad overview of the main ideas and empirical findings. They provide estimates of the magnitude of the problem, trends, and the manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. Th…
Rural Poor In Rich Rural Areas
Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200,000-250,000 indigent families. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); live largely in dispersed areas where basic s…
Poverty in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico During 1992-2002
This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and it provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE datasets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural population in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less …
The Dynamics of Poverty and its Determinants
In the northeast region of Brazil, the poverty picture of the past two decades reveals large fluctuations in the poverty level, and poverty depth. Findings based on the Brazilian annual household survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra Domiciliar, PNAD) datasets from 1981-99 reveal that individual characteristics such as education, experience, and labor market association of the household head are important correlates of poverty. Taking these into a…
Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon
The states in the Brazilian Amazon have \n made progress in reducing poverty and improving social \n indicators in the last decade. Despite this progress, the \n poverty rate in the Amazon is among the highest in Brazil. \n As of 2000, rural poverty is the greatest challenge. In \n Par?, not only is the headcount poverty rate of 58.4 percent \n in rural areas more than 55 percent higher than headcount \n poverty in urban areas, but also poverty i…
Making the Poor Count Takes More than Counting the Poor
The state of Bahia, Brazil has made \n progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators \n in the past decade. Despite this progress, Bahia's \n poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are \n among the lowest in Brazil. Currently, 41 percent of \n Bahia's population live in households below the poverty \n level, a drop of 14 percentage points since 1993. Moreover, \n poverty is less deep than in 1993, but deeper than in…
Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, and Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics
This paper addresses the underlying causes of problems and risks faced by poor and excluded people, focusing on youth of 10-24 years of age. We develop a survey instrument that addresses poverty in broad sense including hunger, early pregnancy and fatherhood, violence, crime, drug use, low levels of social capital, and low educational attainment. The paper also sheds light on intergenerational transfer of risks that are considered to induce pover…
Education and its Poverty-Reducing Effects
Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low income, which in turn perpetuates poverty. Furthermore, low levels of education affect growth though low labor productivity. Although Paraiba, Brazil suffers from a history of educational neglect, the state has…
Migration and Human Capital in Brazil during the 1990s
Nearly 40 percent of all Brazilians have migrated at one point and time, and in-migrants represent substantial portions of regional populations. Migration in Brazil has historically been a mechanism for adjustment to disequilibria. Poorer regions and those with fewer economic opportunities have traditionally sent migrants to more prosperous regions. As such, the southeast region, where economic conditions are most favorable, has historically rece…
Education, Earnings, and Inequality in Brazil, 1982-1998
The educational attainment of the Brazilian labor force gradually expanded during the last two decades. Concurrently, a series of economic structural adjustment policies have been pursued. This paper investigates how these two simultaneous advances have altered the relationship between labor market earnings and education. We find that the remuneration of education fundamentally changed from 1982 to 1998. Returns to tertiary education increased sh…
Education, Earnings, and Inequality in Brazil, 1982-1998
The educational attainment of Brazil's labor force, has gradually increased over the past two decades. At the same time, the government has pursued a series of economic structural adjustment policies. The authors investigate how these simultaneous advances have altered the relationship between labor market earnings, and education. They find that the returns to education in the labor market, fundamentally changed between 1982, and 1998. While the …
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous peoples across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Although the overall economic impact of climate change on gross domestic product (GDP) is significant, what is particularly problematic is that it falls disproportionately on the poor including indigenous peoples, who constitute about 6.5 percent of the population in the region and are among its poore…
Education, Earnings, and Inequality in Brazil, 1982-1998
The educational attainment of the Brazilian labor force gradually expanded during the last two decades. Concurrently, a series of economic structural adjustment policies have been pursued. This paper investigates how these two simultaneous advances have altered the relationship between labor market earnings and education. We find that the remuneration of education fundamentally changed from 1982 to 1998. Returns to tertiary education increased sh…
Education, Earnings, and Inequality in Brazil, 1982-1998
The educational attainment of Brazil's labor force, has gradually increased over the past two decades. At the same time, the government has pursued a series of economic structural adjustment policies. The authors investigate how these simultaneous advances have altered the relationship between labor market earnings, and education. They find that the returns to education in the labor market, fundamentally changed between 1982, and 1998. While the …
Migration and Human Capital in Brazil during the 1990s
Nearly 40 percent of all Brazilians have migrated at one point and time, and in-migrants represent substantial portions of regional populations. Migration in Brazil has historically been a mechanism for adjustment to disequilibria. Poorer regions and those with fewer economic opportunities have traditionally sent migrants to more prosperous regions. As such, the southeast region, where economic conditions are most favorable, has historically rece…
The Dynamics of Poverty and its Determinants
In the northeast region of Brazil, the poverty picture of the past two decades reveals large fluctuations in the poverty level, and poverty depth. Findings based on the Brazilian annual household survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra Domiciliar, PNAD) datasets from 1981-99 reveal that individual characteristics such as education, experience, and labor market association of the household head are important correlates of poverty. Taking these into a…
Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon
The states in the Brazilian Amazon have \n made progress in reducing poverty and improving social \n indicators in the last decade. Despite this progress, the \n poverty rate in the Amazon is among the highest in Brazil. \n As of 2000, rural poverty is the greatest challenge. In \n Par?, not only is the headcount poverty rate of 58.4 percent \n in rural areas more than 55 percent higher than headcount \n poverty in urban areas, but also poverty i…
Making the Poor Count Takes More than Counting the Poor
The state of Bahia, Brazil has made \n progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators \n in the past decade. Despite this progress, Bahia's \n poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are \n among the lowest in Brazil. Currently, 41 percent of \n Bahia's population live in households below the poverty \n level, a drop of 14 percentage points since 1993. Moreover, \n poverty is less deep than in 1993, but deeper than in…
Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, and Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics
This paper addresses the underlying causes of problems and risks faced by poor and excluded people, focusing on youth of 10-24 years of age. We develop a survey instrument that addresses poverty in broad sense including hunger, early pregnancy and fatherhood, violence, crime, drug use, low levels of social capital, and low educational attainment. The paper also sheds light on intergenerational transfer of risks that are considered to induce pover…
Education and its Poverty-Reducing Effects
Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low income, which in turn perpetuates poverty. Furthermore, low levels of education affect growth though low labor productivity. Although Paraiba, Brazil suffers from a history of educational neglect, the state has…
Poverty in Rural and Semi-Urban Mexico During 1992-2002
This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and it provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE datasets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural population in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less …
Crime And Violence In Development
The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad overview of the main ideas and empirical findings. They provide estimates of the magnitude of the problem, trends, and the manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. Th…
Rural Poor In Rich Rural Areas
Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200,000-250,000 indigent families. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); live largely in dispersed areas where basic s…
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples - Lessons from Recent Experiences in Eco and Ethno Tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean
The trend toward new tourism niches in Latin America and the Caribbean (hereafter, LAC) has brought benefits, but also costs to the region's indigenous peoples. As the World Bank social and environmental portfolios in LAC reveal, work with indigenous groups has frequently favored tourism as a strategy for empowerment. At the same time, urban, rural development and infrastructure projects have also increased tourism opportunities, including visits…
The Invisible Poor
Many of the poorest Argentines are invisible in official statistics. Four million rural residents and another 12 million in small urban areas lie outside the reach of the Permanent Household Survey (EPH), which is the basis for poverty figures and most data on social conditions in the country. According to the best estimate, roughly a third of rural residents, more than a million people, live in poverty. The urban bias common too many countries h…
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous peoples across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Although the overall economic impact of climate change on gross domestic product (GDP) is significant, what is particularly problematic is that it falls disproportionately on the poor including indigenous peoples, who constitute about 6.5 percent of the population in the region and are among its poore…
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
No AccessMENA Development Report13 Oct 2013Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab CountriesA Case for Adaptation Governance and Leadership in Building Climate ResilienceAuthors/Editors: Dorte VernerDorte Vernerhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9459-5AboutView ChaptersPDF (16.2 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:In the Arab countries, climate change is a risk to…
Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World
This Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World is presents detailed case studies on the impacts of climate change in the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen that were summarized. The Arab region is already being impacted by climate change through more frequent cyclones, floods, and prolonged droughts. Thousands of rural producers have seen their crops and herds devastated by extreme conditions, and have been forced to aba…
Droughts and Agriculture in Lebanon
This volume examines the causes and consequences of drought on Lebanon’s agriculture. Lebanon is getting hotter and dryer. Projections show droughts will likely become more frequent and severe. Climate change, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) impact the occurrence of drought to varying degrees, with NAO being the biggest short-term driver and climate change being the biggest long-term driver. The drier…
Economics (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Development economics (4 works)