ASEAN-4 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand). We measure sovereign vulnerability within a risk …

Indonesia's two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road …

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation … eight years of institutional change in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are …

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …

. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in non-agriculture lead to fewer firms, but cheaper agricultural imports releases …

Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to …