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Aid to Africa : the changing context
Addison, Tony; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization - in trade, finance, and technology - opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new risks as Africa's integration with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225330
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Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation : The Case of Agricultural Productivity
García-Verdú, Rodrigo - 2019
This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889166
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Soft Lands Breed Soft Men? The Climatic Roots of Risk Preferences
Bolhuis, Marijn - 2017
This study examines the historical origins of differences in attitudes towards risk and uncertainty across different cultures. It establishes a robust positive relationship between cross-country temperature volatility and Hofstede's (2011) [Hofstede, 2011] measure of uncertainty avoidance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968506
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Sustainable Growth and Modernization Under Environmental Hazard and Adaptation
Hritonenko, Natalia - 2014
We develop an aggregated model to study rational environmental adaptation policies that compensate negative consequences of certain environmental hazards and changes. The model distinguishes the three categories of adaptation measures that (a) compensate the decrease of the environmental amenity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067831
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Climate Change in Developing Countries : Global Warming Effects, Transmission Channels and Adaptation Policies
de Bandt, Olivier; Jacolin, Luc; Thibault, Lemaire - 2021
Using panel data covering 126 low- and middle-income countries over 1960-2017, we find that sustained positive temperature deviations from their historical norms have a non-linear negative effect on economic growth and growth per capita. A sustained 1°C temperature increase lowers real GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219423
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The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution : Theory and Evidence
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012
This research examines theoretically and empirically the origins of agriculture. The theory highlights the role of … a faster pace. Consequently, as long as climatic shocks preserved the possibility for agriculture, differences in the …, climatic volatility has a non-monotonic effect on the timing of the transition to agriculture. Farming was undertaken earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058134
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Barriers to the Cross-Border Diffusion of Climate Change Policies
Vu, Trung V. - 2023
This paper hypothesizes and establishes empirically that climate change policies spread more easily between closely related countries, leading to worldwide differences in climate change policy performance. Exploiting variations across countries, the study provides evidence that genetic distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262145
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048370
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Weather conditions and economic growth : is productivity hampered by climate change?
Brenner, Thomas; Lee, Daniel - 2014
Climate change researchers predict a dramatic increase in global average temperature over the next decades. We use past temperature and precipitation fluctuations to investigate whether changes in temperature and precipitation are associated with decreases in economic growth. A GMM panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303759
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Morocco's unique situation in the climate change arena : an analysis of climate forecasts and their link to agriculture
Ouraich, Ismail; Tyner, Wallace E. - 2014
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 projected yield impacts in Morocco using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354015