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Does subway expansion improve air quality? por Li, Shanjun, Liu, Yanyan, Purevjav, Avralt-Od, Yang, Lin

“…Major cities in China and many other fast-growing economies are expanding their subway systems in order to address worsening air pollution and traffic congestion. This paper quantifies the impact of subway expansion on air quality by leveraging fine-scale air quality data and the rapid build-out of 14 new subway lines and 252 stations in Beijing from 2008 to 2016. …”
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Growth and poverty reduction in Pakistan por Saeed, Wajiha, Davies, Stephen

“…However, as noted by the World Bank and the 2015-16 Economic Survey from the Ministry of Finance, much of the population remains in poverty or could fall into poverty if economic conditions worsened. Simultaneously, measures of inequality have risen. …”
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Sustainability analysis for irrigation water management: concepts, methodology, and application to the Aral Sea region por Cai, Ximing, McKinney, Daene C., Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Maintaining current irrigation practices will lead to worsening environmental and economic consequences. …”
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中国教育和医疗卫生中的不平等问题 por Zhang, Xiaobo

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Is HIV/AIDS undermining Botswana’s ‘success story’? implications for development strategy por Thurlow, James

“…Furthermore, focusing resources toward treatment may worsen inequality, since the primary beneficiaries will be middle-income and urban households. …”
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Race to the top and race to the bottom: Tax competition in rural China por Yao, Yi, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Consequently, they are more likely to levy heavy taxes on existing enterprises, worsening the business investment environment. This leads to a ?…”
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A sluggish demand could be as potent as technological progress in creating surplus in staple production: the case of Bangladesh por Ahmed, Raisuddin

“…The analysis shows that, of a total demand depressing effect of 15.6 percent, urbanization accounts for 4 percentage points, cross-price effects for 7 percentage points, and worsening income distribution accounts, residually, for 4.6 percentage points. …”
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The effects of migration and remittances on inequality in rural Pakistan por Adams, Richard H., Jr.

“…On the one hand, Lipton (1980) argues that in India internal remittances worsen rural inequality because they are earned mainly by upper-income villagers. …”
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Impact of interventions by consortium for improving agriculturebased livelihoohds in Central Africa (CIALCA) on food and nutrition security of farmer households por Ekesa, B., Lange, M. de, Macharia, I., Garming, H., Ouma, Emily A., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Asten, Piet J.A. van, Vanlauwe, Bernard, Blomme, Guy

“…For >60% of households, worsened food security was due to climatic conditions. …”
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An Integrated Framework for Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and Developing Adaptation Strategies for Coffee Growing Families in Mesoamerica por Baca, María, Läderach, Peter R.D., Haggar, Jeremy P., Schroth, Götz, Ovalle Rivera, Oriana

“…Historical climate records show changes in average and extreme temperatures, as well as an increase in annual climate variability; this changes can affect all continents of our planet in different ways and the high levels of poverty in some regions can worsen the impacts of climate change. In addition, families who are dedicated to making agriculture and owning small land units directly dependent on its production to keep your family economy. …”
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Geographic overlaps between priority areas for forest carbon storage efforts and those for delivering peacebuilding programs: implications for policy design por Castro Nuñez, Augusto, Mertz, Ole, Sosa, Chrystian C.

“…It has been hypothesized that the outcomes of the interactions between carbon-storage and peacebuilding efforts could result in either improved or worsened forest conservation and likewise increased or decreased conflict. …”
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Agro ecosystems in a changing climate por Råberg, Tora

“…Some farmers are already using techniques and crops to decrease problems that are expected to worsen, and in the present study, several adjustments were suggested that could further improve their situation.…”
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2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming price spikes and excessive food price volatility por von Grebmer, Klaus, Torero, Maximo, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Fritschel, Heidi, Wiesmann, Doris, Yohannes, Yisehac, Schofield, Lilly, von Oppeln, Constanze

“…Among the six countries in which the hunger situation worsened, the Democratic Republic of Congo stands out. …”
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Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults por Ramirez-Zea, Manuel, Melgar, Paul, Flores, Rafael, Hoddinott, John F., Ramakrishnan, Usha, Stein, Aryeh D.

“…Fatness, poor physical fitness, and metabolic syndrome are highly prevalent in women living in both rural and urban areas. Risk profiles worsen with increasing age. Men who migrated to Guatemala City have lower physical fitness, greater fatness and systolic blood pressure, and worse lipid profile than men who still live in their original villages. …”
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The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Food Insecurity among Subsistence-Oriented Indigenous Communities in Amazonia: a Qualitative Examination of Coping Strategies among Riverine Commun... por Torres Vitolas, Carlos A., Harvey, Celia A., Cruz García, Gisella S., Vanegas Cubillos, Martha Cristina, Schreckenberg, Kate

“…In this study we examine how ecological features interact with normative structures, lifestyles, and livelihoods to expose indigenous peoples to food shortages and how they attempt to cope with worsening food insecurity conditions through participatory exercises with ten indigenous communities along the Caquetá River, Colombia. …”
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“Breaking Even” under Intensification? Gendered Trade‐Offs for Women Milk Marketers in Kenya por Tavenner, Katie, Crane, Todd A., Saxena, Tarangini

“…In response to this global trend, there is a growing impetus to better understand the gender dynamics underlying women's market participation to curtail the risk of worsening gender inequalities in agricultural systems transitioning to intensified production. …”
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Appraising agroecological urbanism: A vision for the future of sustainable cities por Chen, Acga, Noor Azmi, Nurul Syafiqah, Ng, Yin Mei, Lesueur, Didier, Yusoff, Sumiani

“…Understanding how nature works in a fast changing world and fostering nature-based agriculture (such as lowinput farming) are crucial for sustaining food systems in the face of worsening urban heat island (UHI) effects and other climatic variables. …”
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Production variability and adaptation strategies of Ugandan smallholders in the face of climate variability and market shocks por Wichern, Jannike, Hammond, James, Wijk, Mark T. van, Giller, Kenneth E., Descheemaeker, Katrien K.

“…The restricted application of ex-ante adaptation strategies and the fact that major ex-post adaptation strategies were inaccessible for large parts of the population is alarming considering that climate change studies show that weather variability and extreme weather events are expected to worsen and to jeopardize crop production. Interventions must aim to reduce households' sensitivity to variability in crop production and prices by increased preparedness to shocks, strengthening the asset base, and diversifying the livelihood portfolio. …”
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Brief review of Ghana’s food system transformation pathways por Asante, Felix A.

“…It is likely that the COVID-19 impact may further exacerbates the worsening food insecurity and nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups including women, children and adolescents, refugees and displaced people, smallholders in rural areas, and the urban poor.…”
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Dietary change and food demand in urbanizing Bangladesh por Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R.

“…The results show that Bangladeshi diets shifted from coarse to refined rice, and consumer preferences for vegetables and pulses were relatively low, contributing to worsening dietary quality. On the other hand, the consumption of nutritious, animal-source foods including fish, poultry, and eggs increased due to high consumer preferences and declining food prices-partly thanks to governmental production support. …”
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