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Current Climate Variability and Future Climate Change: Estimated Growth and Poverty Impacts for Zambia

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  • James Thurlow
  • Tingju Zhu
  • Xinshen Diao

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Economy-wide and hydrological-crop models are combined to estimate and compare the economic impacts of current climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on average, current variability reduces gross domestic product by four percent over a ten-year period and pulls over two percent of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus underscoring the importance of extreme weather events in determining climate damages.

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  • James Thurlow & Tingju Zhu & Xinshen Diao, 2011. "Current Climate Variability and Future Climate Change: Estimated Growth and Poverty Impacts for Zambia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2011-085, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2011-085
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    1. Zouabi, Oussama & Kahia, Montassar, 2014. "The direct effect of climate change on the cereal production in Tunisia: A micro-spatial analysis," MPRA Paper 64441, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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