​The American Economic Association will interview Shaikh Eskander to talk about "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh", coauthored with Ed Barbier, during the 2018 AEA/ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia.    

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LSE's Grantham Research Institute covered "How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal" by Florence Crick, Shaikh M.S.U. Eskander, Sam Fankhauser, Mamadou Diop. Link
  1. The paper distinguishes between adaptive measures which aim to maintain business continuity (sustainable adaptation), and those which are mere coping strategies to ward off the worst impacts of a disaster (reactive coping). 
  2. Insufficient market access and financial barriers lower the probability of sustainable adaptation and increase the probability of reactive coping. Good information, general government support and specific adaptation assistance increase the probability of sustainable adaptation and reduce the probability of reactive coping. 
  3. Firms that are currently engaging in adaptation behavior are more likely to plan ahead and prepare for future climate change. These efforts are held back by insufficient climate information. 
  4. ​There is a need for a more systematic evaluation of different government interventions to establish which adaptation policies work best.
 
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s coverage of "Do Natural Disasters Change Savings and Employment Choices? Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan" by Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser and Shikha Jha. ADB’s Shikha Jha shares findings from recent ADB research into how extreme climate events affect rural employment choices. Read the full story here.



​The World Bank listed "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Shaikh Eskander and Ed Barbier in it's selected readings on Law, Climate Change and Development.   







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​The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) sponsored "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Shaikh Eskander and Ed Barbier in 2016 AERE Annual Summer Meetings in Breckenridge, CO. Read the coverage by EconThatMatters here.