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The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change : A Review of the Evidence

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dc.contributor.authorRabassa, Mariano
dc.contributor.authorSkoufias, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorOlivieri, Sergio
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-19T18:01:36Z
dc.date.available2012-03-19T18:01:36Z
dc.date.issued2011-04-01
dc.description.abstractClimate change is believed to represent a serious challenge to poverty reduction efforts around the globe. This paper conducts an up-to-date review of three main strands of the literature analyzing the poverty impacts of climate change : (i) economy-wide growth models incorporating climate change impacts to work out consistent scenarios for how climate change might affect the path of poverty over the next decades; (ii) studies focusing on the poverty impacts of climate change in the agricultural sector; and (iii) studies exploring how past climate variability impacts poverty. The analysis finds that the majority of the estimates of the poverty impacts tend to ignore the effect of aggregate economic growth on poverty and household welfare. The empirical evidence available to date suggests that climate change will slow the pace of global poverty reduction, but the expected poverty impact will be relatively modest and far from reversing the major decline in poverty that is expected to occur over the next 40 years as a result of continued economic growth. The studies focusing on the sector-specific channels of impacts of climate change suggest that the estimated impacts of climate change on agricultural yields are generally a poor predictor of the poverty impacts of climate change at the national level due to heterogeneity in the ability of households to adapt. It also appears that the impacts of climate change are generally regressive, that is, they fall more heavily on the poor than the rich.en
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dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-5622
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/3389
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5622
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADAPTATION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE SECTOR
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACTS
dc.subjectPOVERTY PREDICTORS
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectWELFARE
dc.titleThe Poverty Impacts of Climate Change : A Review of the Evidenceen
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okr.crossref.titleThe poverty impacts of climate change: A review of the evidence
okr.date.disclosure2011-04-01
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okr.globalpracticePoverty
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-5622
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000158349_20110404100435
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okr.region.administrativeThe World Region
okr.region.administrativeThe World Region
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group (DECRG)
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