CLIMATE, DEVELOPMENT AND MALARIA: AN APPLICATION OF FUND

Richard S.J. Tol ()

No FNU-16, Working Papers from Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University

Abstract: Climate change may well increase malaria morbidity and mortality. This would slow economic growth through increased spending on health care, reduced production, and less effective education. Slower economic growth would increase the incidence of malaria morbidity and mortality. The integrated assessment model FUND is used to estimate the strength of this negative feedback. Although climate-change-induced health problems may well substantially affect the projected growth path of developing regions, it is unlikely that climate change would reverse economic growth.

Keywords: climate change; malaria; integrated assessment; economic growth; poverty traps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-09, Revised 2002-09
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Published, Climatic Change, 88 (1), 21-34.

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