Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia

World Development

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-145

  Gray, Clark ^a   Mueller, Valerie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate; Drought; Ethiopia; Migration; Population mobility

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION MIGRATION; RURAL POPULATION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 81855193949     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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