Climate Change and Infrastructure Investment in Developing Countries: the Case of Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

No wp-2011-092, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Climate change may damage road infrastructure to the potential detriment of economic growth, particularly in developing countries. To quantitatively assess climate change's consequences, we construct a climate-infrastructure model based on stressor-response relationships and link this to a recursive dynamic economy-wide model to estimate and compare road damages to other climate change impact channels. We apply this framework to Mozambique and simulate four future climate scenarios.

Keywords: Climate change; Economic development; Infrastructure (Economics); Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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