This paper revises some relevant aspects of The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico (ECCM), one of the most important … of climate change impacts. The estimates of the costs of climate change for Mexico are so low that can hardly be …

model has two potential poverty traps – a climate-change-induced one and a civil-war-induced one – and the two poverty traps … Africa in deep poverty with a high probability. Other countries enjoy exponential growth; and some countries may either be … trapped in poverty or experience rapid growth. The SRES scenarios were wrong to ignore the impact of climate change and civil …

We use a demo-economic model to examine the question of whether climate change could widen or deepen poverty traps. The … infant mortality; both are sensitive to weather and climate. There may thus be a climate-related poverty trap where climate … change increases disease burdens that reinforce poverty. We estimate finite-mixture models of per capita income, fertility …