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Informed Selection of Future ClimatesPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
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Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric WorldClimate 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...
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Climate Change and Economic Growth Prospects for MalawiMalawi 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...
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Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture and the Whole EconomyThe 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...
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Climate Change and Economic DevelopmentThe 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...
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An Integrated Analysis of Economywide Effects of Climate ChangeThe 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...
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Climate Change and Economic Development in AfricaRecent 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...
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Implications of Climate Change for Ghana’s EconomyLong-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...
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The Effect of Climate Change on Economic GrowthThis 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...
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Climate Change and Economic Growth Prospects for MalawiMalawi confronts a development imperative in a context of rising temperatures and deep uncertainty about precipitation trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on three...
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Adapting to Climate ChangeMozambique, like many African countries, is already highly susceptible to climate variability and extreme weather events. Climate change threatens to heighten this vulnerability. In order to evaluate potential impacts and adaptation options for...
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The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure in GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Implications of Climate Change for Ghana’s EconomyPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Modeling Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Agriculture Demand in the Volta Basin and other Basin Systems in GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Climate Variability and Household Adaptation Strategies in Southern EthiopiaPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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The Economic Costs of Climate ChangePart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Morocco’s Unique Situation in the Climate Change ArenaAlterations 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...
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The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Road Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa CountriesClimate 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...
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Tree Plantations in the Philippines and ThailandThe area of forest plantations in the tropics has increased for many reasons, but not the least as a result of natural forest depletion. Although forest plantations cannot qualitatively substitute the timber grown in natural forests, their importance...
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Forest Transitions and Carbon FluxesForests as stocks, sinks and sources of carbon have become a vital issue in global politics, along with the Kyoto Protocol of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. This publication, encompassing nine chapters by twelve authors from six...
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From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later...
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From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...
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From the Editor's Desk (August 2012)
Tony Addison With this issue, Angle returns refreshed from its Nordic summer break. The sun continues to shine on the Baltic, although it is getting...
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Climate Change and Development Policy
James Thurlow UNU-WIDER recently hosted an international conference on ‘Climate Change and Development Policy’. We were motivated by the apparent...
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Climate Change and Development Policy: Competing Aims?
Yongfu Huang The climate change crisis and development needs of the world's poor require us to acknowledge the necessity and urgency for both...
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Climate Change and the Zambezi River ValleyThe articles in this special issue set forth a set of technical contributions that will improve the understanding of the impacts of climate change in developing countries. They are drawn from the Development Under Climate Change (DUCC) project...
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Modeling Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Agriculture Demand in the Volta Basin and Other Basin Systems in GhanaAn assessment of the impacts of projected climate change on water availability and crop production in the Volta Basin and the southwestern and coastal basin systems of Ghana has been undertaken as a component of the impacts and adaptation study for...
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The Impact of Climate Change on Pastoral Production SystemsThis paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. It is based on a household level survey in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Pastoralists’ perception of...
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Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in NepalPart of Journal Special Issue Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change in EthiopiaPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and Economic Development
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Economic Aspects of the Palestinian-Israeli ConflictPart of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict
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A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change in EthiopiaThis study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system of country-specific hydrology, crop, road and hydropower engineering models to simulate the economic impacts of climate change...
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