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Labor Market Impacts and Responses : The Economic Consequences of a Marine Environmental Disaster
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper examines the labor market impacts of a large-scale marine environmental crisis caused by toxic chemical contamination in Vietnam's central coast in 2016. Combining labor force surveys with satellite data on fishing-boat detection, the analysis finds negative and heterogeneous impacts on fishery incomes and employment and uncovers interesting coping patterns. Satellite data suggest that upstream fishers traveled to safe fishing grounds, and thus bore lower income damage. Downstream fishers, instead, endured severe impact and were more likely to substitute fishery hours for working secondary jobs. The paper also finds evidence on an impact recovery to fishing intensity and fishery income, and a positive labor market spillover to freshwater fishery.


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Travail de fin d'études[BR]- Travail de fin d'études: "Quels sont les mécanismes d'adaptation mis en place à la suite d'une (menace de) diffusion non consensuelle d'images intimes ? Une recherche qualitative auprès de la communauté LGBTQIA+ francophone."[BR]- Séminaire d'accompagnement à l'écriture
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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En réalisant une étude qualitative exploratoire, nous allons identifier les mécanismes d'adaptation des victimes de diffusion non consensuelle d'images intimes au sein de la communauté LGBTQI+ francophone de France et de Belgique.


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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and other environmental factors. Within this framework, the paper examines evidence from existing empirical literature to compose an initial picture of household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings. The authors find that although households possess numerous strategies for managing climate shocks and shifts, their adaptive capacity is insufficient for the task of maintaining-let alone improving-household welfare. They describe the role of public policy in fortifying the ability of rural households to adapt to a changing climate.


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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and other environmental factors. Within this framework, the paper examines evidence from existing empirical literature to compose an initial picture of household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings. The authors find that although households possess numerous strategies for managing climate shocks and shifts, their adaptive capacity is insufficient for the task of maintaining-let alone improving-household welfare. They describe the role of public policy in fortifying the ability of rural households to adapt to a changing climate.


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Rising food prices and coping strategies : household-level evidence from Afghanistan
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices - during the 2007/08 global food crisis - on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita food consumption and in food security (per capita calorie intake and household dietary diversity) corresponding to the price shocks. The data reveal smaller price elasticities with respect to calories than with respect to food consumption, suggesting that households trade off quality for quantity as they move toward staple foods and away from nutrient-rich foods such as meat and vegetables. In addition, there is increased demand in the face of price increases (Giffen good properties) for wheat products in urban areas. This study improves on country-level simulation studies by providing estimates of actual household wellbeing before and during the height of the global food crisis in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries.


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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices in 40 countries. Larger shares of female, young, less educated, and urban workers stopped working. Gender gaps in work stoppage were particularly pronounced and stemmed mainly from differences within sectors rather than differential employment patterns across sectors. Differences in work stoppage between urban and rural workers were markedly smaller than those across gender, age, and education groups. Preliminary results from 10 countries suggest that following the initial shock at the start of the pandemic, employment rates partially recovered between April and August, with greater gains for those groups that had borne the brunt of the early jobs losses. Although the high-frequency phone surveys greatly over-represent household heads and therefore overestimate employment rates, case studies in five countries suggest that they provide a reasonably accurate measure of disparities in employment levels by gender, education, and urban/rural location following the onset of the crisis, although they perform less well in capturing disparities between age groups. These results shed new light on the labor market consequences of the COVID-19 crisis in developing countries, and suggest that real-time phone surveys, despite their lack of representativeness, are a valuable source of information to measure differential employment impacts across groups during a crisis.


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Rising food prices and coping strategies : household-level evidence from Afghanistan
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices - during the 2007/08 global food crisis - on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita food consumption and in food security (per capita calorie intake and household dietary diversity) corresponding to the price shocks. The data reveal smaller price elasticities with respect to calories than with respect to food consumption, suggesting that households trade off quality for quantity as they move toward staple foods and away from nutrient-rich foods such as meat and vegetables. In addition, there is increased demand in the face of price increases (Giffen good properties) for wheat products in urban areas. This study improves on country-level simulation studies by providing estimates of actual household wellbeing before and during the height of the global food crisis in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries.


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The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership : Coping with Chaos.
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ISBN: 303071764X 3030717631 Year: 2021 Publisher: Springer Nature

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This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potentially prevent—future crises.


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Gaming sexism : gender and identity in the era of casual video games
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ISBN: 1479802212 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a new era of casual gaming in which video games appealed to not just the stereotypical hardcore male gamer, but also to a much broader, more diverse audience. However, the GamerGate controversy six years later, and other similar public incidents since, laid bare the internalized misogyny and gender stereotypes in the gaming community. Today, even as women make up nearly half of all gamers, sexist assumptions about the what and how of women's gaming are more actively enforced. Amanda C. Cote explores the video game industry and its players to explain this contradiction, how it affects female gamers, and what it means in terms of power and gender equality.


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The psychosocial implications of Disney movies
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ISBN: 3038978493 3038978485 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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In this volume of 15 articles, contributors from a wide range of disciplines present their analyses of Disney movies and Disney music, which are mainstays of popular culture. The power of the Disney brand has heightened the need for academics to question whether Disney’s films and music function as a tool of the Western elite that shapes the views of those less empowered. Given its global reach, how the Walt Disney Company handles the role of race, gender, and sexuality in social structural inequality merits serious reflection according to a number of the articles in the volume. On the other hand, other authors argue that Disney productions can help individuals cope with difficult situations or embrace progressive thinking. The different approaches to the assessment of Disney films as cultural artifacts also vary according to the theoretical perspectives guiding the interpretation of both overt and latent symbolic meaning in the movies. The authors of the 15 articles encourage readers to engage with the material, showcasing a variety of views about the good, the bad, and the best way forward.

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Zeus --- snowmen --- adaptation --- family jewels --- motherhood --- feminist political economy of media --- Lilo &amp --- music --- children --- heroism --- princess --- transnational media --- feminist film criticism --- EPCOT --- stereotyping --- applause --- family function --- queer --- gender --- entertainment --- masculinity --- fireworks --- diversity --- world --- coping mechanisms --- appropriation --- selflessness --- snowflake --- Megara --- Pixar --- Walter Benjamin --- cultivation --- gender nonconformity --- Disney --- Elsa --- enchantment --- witches --- empowered mothering --- cultural studies --- bullroarer --- postfeminism --- storms --- imperialism --- magic --- matrix of domination --- sexuality --- beauty --- children’s media --- fertility --- boobs and boyfriends --- girls --- parthenogenesis --- Polynesia --- coloniality --- commodification --- Marshmallow --- content coding analysis --- colonialism --- Moana --- Let it Go --- non-binary --- Africana --- family roles --- hypermasculinity --- media criticism --- cultures --- political economy of film --- mean girls --- death --- engagement ring --- Olaf --- intersectionality --- Hercules --- sounds --- Kristoff --- Dumbo --- hegemony --- park --- alternative royals --- prince --- girl cartoon --- pink elephants --- Stitch --- gender stereotypes --- standing ovation --- gender roles --- wedding toast --- diamond --- content analysis --- family structure --- feminism --- family --- Children's films --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Walt Disney Company --- Influence. --- Juvenile films --- Motion pictures for children --- Moving-pictures for children --- Video recordings for children --- Motion pictures --- Disney Studio --- 迪斯尼公司 --- Mei guo di shi ni gong si --- 美國迪士尼公司 --- Walt Disney Productions --- 21st Century Fox (Firm)

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