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This working paper analyses the economic impacts of floods in agriculture with the help of flood risk areas as well as …. 2015). A literature review about the future development of flood events shows an increasing tendency of flood events in the … dryness and drought during different steps of the vegetation period and extreme heat in the blooming period lead to …
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In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the … flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use … this self-identified flood exposure, and external exposure indicators from satellite images, to identify both directly …
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This working paper analyses the economic impacts of floods in agriculture with the help of flood risk areas as well as …. 2015). A literature review about the future development of flood events shows an increasing tendency of flood events in the … dryness and drought during different steps of the vegetation period and extreme heat in the blooming period lead to …
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account the disaster type, which is mainly earthquake and flood in the case of Iran, the results suggest that the positive …
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Drought is Africa's most prevalent natural disaster and is becoming an increasingly common source of income shocks … in health human capital. I use Census data to estimate the effects of early childhood exposure to drought on later …-random variation in local droughts experienced by different cohorts in different districts, I find that drought exposure in infancy …
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drought on total calorie availability and the mitigating effects of PROGRESA on food consumption in periods of drought …. Drought reduced total expenditures and total food expenditures but increased the total availability of calories. This paradox … can be explained by the impact of drought on the composition of calories; that is, it reduced the consumption of expensive …
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