In Europe, economic evaluation of flood management projects is becoming a commonly used decision tool. At the same time …, flood management policies shift towards new concepts such as giving more room to water by restoring floodplain and living … damage on agriculture may have a high influence on the efficiency of these policies, flood damage assessment on agricultural …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … dates. Finally we find that the gain of the weather-index based insurance is lower than that of hedging against cotton price …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … significantly decreases the basis risk, compared to using simulated sowing dates. Finally we found that the gain of the weather …

, results underline the limited impact of weather on the interconnection of these markets. …

. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial … show that the economic boom in cocoa-producing areas was associated with demographic growth and urbanization. We _nd no …

Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …