TY - UNPB

T1 - Poverty and Exposure to Climate Change in sub-Saharan Africa

AU - Fisker, Peter Kielberg

AU - Tarp, Finn

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - This study provides a framework for examining the effects of climate change on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents and combines the most recent data on poverty and climate projections at the subnational level, and finds that, i) currentlevels of poverty and current climate are not correlated in any meaningful way, ii) poorer districts are exposed to larger projected increases in temperatures and precipitation than richer areas when looking at within-country variation. Whilethis exposure will likely amplify the effects of climate change on poverty, overall vulnerability to climate change decreases through poverty reduction.

AB - This study provides a framework for examining the effects of climate change on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents and combines the most recent data on poverty and climate projections at the subnational level, and finds that, i) currentlevels of poverty and current climate are not correlated in any meaningful way, ii) poorer districts are exposed to larger projected increases in temperatures and precipitation than richer areas when looking at within-country variation. Whilethis exposure will likely amplify the effects of climate change on poverty, overall vulnerability to climate change decreases through poverty reduction.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - poverty

KW - climate change

KW - CMIP6

KW - Sub-Saharan Africa

M3 - Working paper

VL - 2021

T3 - AERC Working Paper Series

SP - 1

EP - 16

BT - Poverty and Exposure to Climate Change in sub-Saharan Africa

PB - African Economic Research Consortium AERC

ER -