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, but also new risks as Africa's integration with the global economy evolves. Climate change is impacting productive sectors …
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We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing … modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows for rigorous comparison of climate, biophysical, and economic …. First, less distorted climate outcomes result in typically more favourable economic outcomes. Second, successful global …
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trends. We evaluate the implications of climate change for overall growth and development prospects to 2050. We focus on … uncertainty in climate forecasts. We find that climate change is unlikely to substantially slow overall economic growth over the … next couple of decades. However, climate change implications become more pronounced over time and may become substantially …
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so … trajectory in which countervailing measures are not adopted to address climate change, climate change will be responsible for an …
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This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change … outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple impacts of climate change and the importance of spatial and temporal … variation in these impacts. The study focused in particular on the potential impacts of climate change on the water supply …
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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 … estimate the short- and long-run effects of climate change on growth. We establish that an increase in temperature …
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This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...
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This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...
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Success in development over the past half-century was based on manufacturing-led export growth. Because the share of global employment in manufacturing will decline, manufacturing won't play the same role in the coming decades. An increase in manufacturing employment won't suffice to meet the...
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There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas. This paper sets out the scale of the gas, and the array...
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