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

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 …

We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …

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 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations …

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

drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a higher frequency of power plants outages as a consequence of … capacity-adjusted drought index. The results are used to assess the monetary loss of power plant outages due to heatwaves and …