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The effect of clima...
The effect of climate change on economic growth : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Alagidede, Paul (author)
- Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Adu, George (author)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Boakye Frimpong, Prince (author)
- Garden City University College, Kumasi, Ghana
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- 2015-06-26
- 2016
- English.
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In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-847X .- 1867-383X. ; 18:3, s. 417-436
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- This study is a contribution to the empirics of climate change and its effect on sustainable economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data on two climate variables: temperature and precipitation, and employing panel cointegration econometric technique of the long- and short-run effects of climate change on growth, we establish that temperatures beyond 24.9 °C would significantly reduce economic performance in SSA. Furthermore, we show that the relationship between real GDP per capita on one hand and temperature on the other is intrinsically nonlinear.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Climate change
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Economic growth
- Panel cointegration
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- art (subject category)
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