theoretical advancements on co-management and drawing on empirical studies conducted in Kenya, the paper examines how successful … Kenya. …

Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for … the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the … protection, energy subsidies, access to land, and favorable regulatory enforcement. Moreover, energy subsidies and trade …

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 …

European policies. Accordingly, the protection of critical infrastructures and in particular, the resilience of the energy … 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 …