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Does rainfall variability matter for food security in developing countries ?

Kinda, Somlanare Romuald; Badolo, Felix - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper contributes to the existing literature on rainfall variability and food security. It analyses the effect of rainfall variability on food security for 71 developing countries from 1960 to 2016. Results suggest that rainfall variability reduces food security in developing countries....

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Rainfall Variability and Labor Allocation in Uzbekistan: The Role of Women's Empowerment

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Alimukhamedova, … - 2023

Employing novel household survey data, this paper examines how rainfall variability and mean temperature affect individual labor supply in Uzbekistan, a highly traditional lower-middle-income country in Central Asia. The findings suggest that rainfall variability induces the reallocation of...

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Consumption smoothing and the welfare cost of uncertainty

Alem, Yonas; Colmer, Jonathan - 2018

Separating the effects of uncertainty from realised events, and identifying the welfare effects of uncertainty, present a number of empirical challenges. Combining individuallevel panel data from rural Ethiopia with high-resolution meteorological data, we introduce a new proxy for income...

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From scenario to mounting risks: COVID-19’s perils for development and supply security in the Sahel

Al-Saidi, Mohammad; Saad, Suhair A. Gayoum; Elagib, … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 25 (2022) 7, pp. 6295-6318

The African Sahel countries are inherently fragile, environmentally insecure and economically weak. This paper …-term development of the region. It outlines the Sahel-specific COVID-19 scenario by firstly highlighting the underlying vulnerabilities … Sahel is associated with enlarged sociopolitical developmental perils. Lower remittance sent by expatriates, violent …

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Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger

Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The...

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France's Africa policy under president Macron: Good intentions, partial reform and the fiasco in the Sahel

Tull, Denis - 2023

military engagement in the Sahel and incoherent relations with autocratic governments. The involuntary military withdrawal …

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Aktuelle Entwicklungen der regionalen Integration in Westafrika: Herausforderungen für die künftige Gestaltung der Außen-und Entwicklungspolitik

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

Westafrika/Sahel kommen neue Prozesse von Nation Building und State Building in Gang. Sie werden von Bestrebungen getragen, den … Westafrika/Sahel in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Sie sind mit den Inhalten und Interessen der von Deutschland vertretenen … Westafrika/Sahel. Ihr jeweiliges Potenzial wird im Hinblick auf Entwicklungsperspektiven und Nachhaltigkeit analysiert. Neben dem …

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Wie weiter in der Sahelpolitik? Zielkonflikte und begrenzte Handlungsoptionen

Tull, Denis - 2024

Die durch Putsche etablierten Militärregime in Mali (2020), Burkina Faso (2022) und Niger (2023) stellen Deutschland und seine europäischen Partner vor Zielkonflikte und Dilemmata. Entsprechend viel Zeit benötigen die Europäer, einen angemessenen Kurs gegenüber den Militärregimen...

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Tendances actuelles de l'évolution de l'intégration régionale en Afrique de l'Ouest: Défis pour la conception future de la politique étrangère et de développement

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

coups d'État, ont décidé de former l'Alliance des États du Sahel (AES). Cette nouvelle organisation régionale a vu le jour … tendances croissantes en faveur d'une nouvelle conception de l'État et de la souveraineté. La région Afrique de l'Ouest/Sahel … et sociales et les attentes des partenaires de l'espace Afrique de l'Ouest/Sahel connaissent de profonds bouleversements …

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Current developments in West Africa's regional integration: Challenges for the future design of foreign and development policy

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

new regional organisation, the Alliance of Sahel States (Alliance des Etats du Sahel - AES). This move was prompted by the … understanding of statehood and sovereignty. In the West Africa/Sahel region, new processes of nation-building and state-building are … partners in the West Africa/Sahel region are currently undergoing profound transformation. They need to be aligned with the …

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