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Implications of Climate Change for Ghana's Economy

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  • Channing Arndt
  • Felix Asante
  • James Thurlow

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Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country's dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detailed sector studies, to estimate the economywide impacts of climate change under four climate projections. Climate change is found to always reduce national welfare, with poor and urban households and the northern Savannah zone being the worst affected.

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  • Channing Arndt & Felix Asante & James Thurlow, 2014. "Implications of Climate Change for Ghana's Economy," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-020, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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