Municipal Development in Bahia. The Impact of Meteorological Drought

This article aims to study the relationship between meteorological drought and the Firjan Municipal Development Index of Employment and Income (IFDM_ER) in the state of Bahia in the period between 2005 and 2016. To this end, a brief review of the concepts of drought and municipal development was presented, as well as a bibliometric study in the Scopus database on the scientific production on the subject and, as a methodological procedure, an empirical regression study in a data panel with 417 municipalities in Bahia, with IFDM_ER as the dependent variable and climate as the independent variable of interest. through the SPI classification. The statistical model reveals that there is a positive association between humid climate and municipal development, and a negative association between dry climate and municipal development. Thus, the results indicate that the climate influences several aspects of the quality of life and economic progress in the municipalities of Bahia.