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An Integrated Analysis of Economywide Effects of Climate Change

The effects of climate change in Turkey are expected to be significant. The aim of this paper is to quantify the effects of climate change on the overall economy by using an integrated framework incorporating a computable general equilibrium model...

  • Agriculture
  • Economic equilibrium
  • Food security
Journal Article
The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure in Ghana

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

  • Climate change
  • Environment
  • Global warming
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Implications of Climate Change for Ghana’s Economy

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

  • Climate change
  • Environment and economic development
  • Environment
Journal Article
Modeling Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Agriculture Demand in the Volta Basin and other Basin Systems in Ghana

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Global warming
Journal Article
Climate Variability and Household Adaptation Strategies in Southern Ethiopia

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Environment
Journal Article
The Economic Costs of Climate Change

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

  • Climate change
  • Econometric models
  • Global warming
Journal Article
Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa

Recent studies indicate that climate change will negatively impact Africa's growth and development prospects, particularly in the absence of adaptation and mitigation. Losses of up to 4% of Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) are projected, and...

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Economic development
Journal Article
Climate Change and Economic Growth Prospects for Malawi

Malawi confronts a growth and development imperative that it must meet in a context characterised by rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about trends in precipitation. This article evaluates the potential implications of climate change for...

  • Climate change
  • Economic development
  • Global warming
Working Paper
Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture and the Whole Economy

The paper provides estimates of economic impacts of climate change, compares these with historical impacts of drought spells, and estimates the extent to which the current Moroccan agricultural development and investment strategy, the Plan Maroc Vert...

  • Agriculture and state
  • Environment
  • Global warming
Working Paper
Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric World

Climate change is a phenomenon leading to randomly distributed disasters around the globe. Due to massive economic and technical asymmetry between the advanced North and the developing South efficient climate and industrial policy is particular...

  • Environmental economics
  • Global warming
  • International obligations
Working Paper
Morocco’s Unique Situation in the Climate Change Arena

Alterations in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures due to climate change will most likely translate into yield reductions in desirable crops. In this particular context, the object of this paper is to lay down findings and results for...

  • Agriculture
  • Global warming
  • Uncertainty
Working Paper
The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

Climate change scenarios for many Sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana indicate that temperatures will increase while rainfall will either increase or decrease. The potential impact of climate change on economic systems is well-known...

  • Environment
  • Global warming
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
Journal Special Issue
Climate Change and Economic Development

The roots of development economics lie in the study of large-scale phenomena such as economic transformation. Climate change, as a global phenomenon, is drawing the attention of the profession back towards studies of transformational processes...

  • Climate change
  • Economic development
  • Global warming
Journal Article
Informed Selection of Future Climates

Part of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley

  • Climate change
  • Global warming
  • Information theory in finance
Working Paper
Implications of Climate Change for Ghana’s Economy

Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country’s dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by...

  • Environment and economic development
  • Environment
  • Global warming
Working Paper
The Effect of Climate Change on Economic Growth

This paper is a contribution to the empirics of climate change and its effect on sustainable economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using data on two climate variables, temperature and precipitation, and employing panel cointegration techniques, we...

  • Econometrics
  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Environmental economics
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