How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate … and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined with climate data for the past three decades. The study finds that … shocks and observed production reactions to climate anomalies can, respectively, provide hints about livelihood vulnerability …

The world's climate is changing. It is well recognized that technical standards and project specifications of public … infrastructure have to be adjusted, depending on the climate. However, it is less recognized that the public infrastructure … credibility could be improved by taking climate conditions into account. If future precipitation were anticipated by backward …

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we …-Saharan Africa. Second, do development policies have a big-city bias and, if so, what does this imply for growth and inequality …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …

Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …

, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …