regarding desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD). Most of the studies on the costs of land degradation (mainly …

This research 'Economics of drought in India' is aimed at taking an overview of the drought in India during 1991 …-2003. The scope was limited to cover the impacts of drought on agriculture and livestock in the State of Orissa during 1991 … 2002-2003 drought in Orissa effected agriculture by damaging crop production of 85 million tons. However, it was the …

Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper … documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in … these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in South African Census data with cross-sectional and temporal drought …

The increased occurrence of extreme weather conditions leading to drought is a key development challenge. This paper … drought declarations and mayoral elections in Brazil. While accounting for current and historical rainfall patterns, the paper … drought declarations prior to the municipal election; and ii) receiving a drought declaration reinforces the electoral …

basins, where water deficit during drought events is partially covered by illegal abstractions, mostly from aquifers, which …-based drought insurance systems have the potential to introduce the necessary incentives to reduce overexploitation during drought … events and remove the high costs of the drought indemnity paid by the government. This paper develops a methodology to obtain …

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water …

Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …