Climate change and migration: the case of Africa

Bruno Conte

No 1411, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: How will future climate change affect Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of migration and welfare? Can policymakers help SSA to adapt to this process? I answer these questions with a quantitative framework that, coupled with rich spatial data and forecasts for the future climate, projects millions of climate mi- grants and unequal welfare losses across SSA. Investigating migration and trade liberalization as policy tools, I find persistent inequality in welfare losses if only reducing migration barriers in SSA. Reducing both trade and migration barriers is welfare-improving in aggregate and distributional terms.

Keywords: migration; climate change; economic geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O15 Q54 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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Working Paper: Climate change and migration: the case of Africa (2023)
Working Paper: Climate Change and Migration: The Case of Africa (2022)
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