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The Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorGascoigne, Jon
dc.contributor.authorBaquie, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorVinha, Katja Pauliina
dc.contributor.authorCalcutt, Evie Isabel Neall
dc.contributor.authorKshirsagar, Varun Sridhar
dc.contributor.authorMeenan, Conor
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorSkoufias, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-30T16:54:42Z
dc.date.available2024-01-30T16:54:42Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-29
dc.description.abstractThis paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a key element in models that quantify the risk of extreme weather and the impacts of climate change. Although these functions are commonly estimated for storm or flood damages to buildings, they are less often available for income losses from droughts. The paper takes a regional approach to the analysis, developing standardized hazard definitions and methods for matching hazard and household data, allowing survey data from close to 100,000 households to be used in the analysis. The damage functions are used to quantify the impact of historical weather conditions on poverty for eight countries, highlighting the risk to poverty outcomes that weather variability causes. National poverty rates are 1–12 percent higher, depending on the country, under the worst weather conditions relative to the best conditions observed in the past 13 years. This amounts to an increase in the total poverty gap that ranges from US$4 million to US$2.4 billion (2011 purchasing power parity).en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099325301292478621/IDU1ae0eac0e145d214c6218002156b672eb8155
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10683
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40979
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 10683
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectDRAUGHT
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.titleThe Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africaen
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okr.crossref.titleThe Welfare Cost of Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa
okr.date.disclosure2024-01-29
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099325301292478621/IDU1ae0eac0e145d214c6218002156b672eb8155
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10683
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10683
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10683
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okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Climate Change and Health
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Aspects of Climate Change
okr.unitEFI-Poverty and Equity-GE (EPVGE)
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