drought. Specifically, we evaluate how external pressures have changed: (1) different agroecosystems' abilities to tolerate … drought, i.e., ecosystem resilience; (2) rural communities’ abilities to adapt to drought, mediated via their access to assets …; and (3) the ability of institutions and policy interventions to play a role in mediating drought-related crises, i …

that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks forrain-fed grain maize production was investigated for …

degrees of drought over the last two decades. Water withdrawal and consumption are integral and unavoidable components of the … vulnerable to electricity supply disruptions in times of severe drought. In this report, an attempt is made to quantify the … issues en-route to quantifying the impact of drought including: identifying areas in the state historically prone to drought …

. Many of the proposed privacy protection schemes do not give due consideration to the contextual, and more importantly …

In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …

protection based on the applied tariffs faced by each exporter. In order to do this, an index of trade policy restrictiveness is … computed, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index as the tariff aggregator. We also analyze the protection granted … to each sector by the existing tariff structure. In this report, we compute effective rates of protection that overcome …