Climate change and migration: the case of Africa
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- dc.contributor.author Conte, Bruno
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:10:13Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:10:13Z
- dc.date.issued 2023-10-01
- dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:09:14Z
- dc.description.abstract How will future climate change affect rural economies like sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of migration and welfare losses? How can policy enhance SSA's capacity to adapt to this process? I answer these questions with a quantitative framework that, coupled with rich spatial data and forecasts for the future, estimates millions of climate migrants and sizeable and unequal welfare losses in SSA. Investigating migration and trade policies as mitigating tools, I find a tradeoff associated with the former: reducing SSA migration barriers to the European Union (EU) standards eliminates aggregate welfare losses at the cost of more climate migration and high regional inequality. Reducing tariffs to the EU levels attenuates this cost.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1880
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68676
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1880
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- dc.subject.keyword climate change
- dc.subject.keyword migration
- dc.subject.keyword economic geography
- dc.title Climate change and migration: the case of Africa
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