Uganda’s climate is changing in terms of rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns, leading to extreme meteorological conditions such as prolonged drought, floods landslides. Yet the majority (68%) Ugandans rely largely on rain-fed agriculture, which affected by variability. This study therefore investigates effect variability agricultural productivity Uganda combining long-term da...

We show that in a Malthusian world an increase in taxes raises average labour productivity by culling marginal workers and reducing equilibrium population. Thus states with higher taxes will have higher labour productivity, ceteris paribus, and an increase in taxes in a particular state will generate an increase over time in labour productivity (”economic growth”). Landowners create the same ef...