Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96330 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/017
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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 significantly reduces economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, we show that the relationship between real gross domestic product per capita on one hand, and the climate factors on the other, is intrinsically non-linear.
Subjects: 
climate change
Sub-Saharan Africa
sustainable growth
panel cointegration
JEL: 
I18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-738-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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