Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from developing countries

Simplice Asongu, Omang Messono () and Keyanfe Guttemberg ()
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Omang Messono: Dschang, Cameroon
Keyanfe Guttemberg: Yaoundé, Cameroon

No 21/010, Working Papers from European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS)

Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to climate change in 169 countries for the period 1995-2017. The empirical evidence which is based on panel fixed effects regressions shows that: i) the political empowerment of women as well as its components (i.e. civil liberties of women, participation of women in civil society and participation of women in political debates) reduce vulnerability to climate change. ii) The underlying effect is most pronounced in upper middle income, Latin American, small and fragile countries. iii) Public spending on education, the effectiveness of governance and education are the real transmission channels through which vulnerability to climate change is affected by women’s political empowerment. The findings are robust to alternative estimation methods such as the Tobit, the dynamic fixed effects, and the generalized method of moments regressions. Policy implications are discussed, inter alia, the need for sampled countries to encourage women's political empowerment in order to reduce risks linked to climate change.

Keywords: climate change; vulnerability; political empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2021-02
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Working Paper: Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2021)
Working Paper: Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2021)
Working Paper: Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2021)
Working Paper: Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from developing countries (2021)
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