Implications of Climate Change for Ghana's Economy

Channing Arndt, Felix Asante and James Thurlow

No wp-2014-020, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country's dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by detailed sector studies, to estimate the economywide impacts of climate change under four climate projections. Climate change is found to always reduce national welfare, with poor and urban households and the northern Savannah zone being the worst affected.

Keywords: Environment and economic development; Environment; Global warming; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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