Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
January 31, 2011 Water Resource Management
Project by Chandra Kiran: There is a vast literature on groundwater management when recharge is stochastic and when demand is known. Given the developed country setting of this literature, there is no corresponding focus on stochastic demand, especially when demand…
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January 31, 2011 Climate Change and its Social Consequences
Project by Chandra Kiran: Using a 25-year panel on more than 300 districts, and newly available gridded climate datasets, we estimate the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. The effects of random year-to-year variations in weather are used to…
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January 27, 2011 Development Interventions
Project by Anna Tompsett A ‘spine road’ is being constructed in Kibera, a large informal settlement in the center of Nairobi. The road will vastly improve transport access to the settlement. My proposed research project will track a panel of…
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January 27, 2011 General, Water Resource Management
Dealing with spatial and temporal variation in water availability in a data-sparse environment Project by Anna Tompsett The project focuses on an area of the Niger Inland Delta near Tombouctou, Mali, where there is very little data available for water…
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January 27, 2011 Energy Systems, General
Project by Aly Sanoh This paper analysis the optimal options to supply electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant resources using transmissions systems across the huge renewable energy resources of Africa. The overarching questions are: How…
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January 27, 2011 Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Project by Aly Sanoh This paper addresses three unresolved questions in the literature of public finance and development. First, it uses exogenous variation in rainfall across municipalities in Mali to estimate the causal effect of household income shocks on municipal…
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