Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures …In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …