Weather fluctuations tend to be as important as climate change in farmers’ decision making in countries such as Ethiopia that have virtually no weather insurance. This paper assesses the distinct impacts of weather and climate change measures on agricultural productivity of households,...

Some distinctive essential aspects, characterizing most mining projects - the high level of investment effort, the major impact upon turning to good account of a significant part of the national wealth (the useful mineral deposits), the extremely limited character of the state’s available...

This paper studies the impact of the Brazilian Arranjos Productivos Locais (APL) policy, a cluster development policy, on small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) performance. Using firm-level data on SMEs for the years 2002–2009, this paper combines fixed effects with reweighting methods to...