Climate change and economic growth in Brazil

Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Beaudin, Laura

doi:10.1080/13504851.2015.1076141

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“…[16] finds a significant negative impact of natural disasters on the human development index and poverty at the municipal level. [17] explores the impact of climate change on different parts of Brazil. The results show that the impact of seasonal precipitation change is different across regions of Brazil.…”

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Natural disasters, climate change, and their impact on inclusive wealth in G20 countries

Fang

Lau

et al. 2018

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This paper uses the 1990-2010 natural disaster and carbon emissions data of G20 countries to examine the impact of natural disasters and climate change on the natural capital component of inclusive wealth. Our study shows that climate change and GDP have no positive impacts on the growth of natural capital. By contrast, trade openness and natural disaster frequency contribute to the accumulation of natural capital in G20 countries. There is an inverted U-shaped relationship between the growth of natural capital and the magnitude of natural disaster. Natural capital growth is not affected very much by small disasters. By contrast, large disasters tend to make the growth of natural capital fall sharply.

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Natural disasters, climate change, and their impact on inclusive wealth in G20 countries

Fang

Lau

et al. 2018

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…A few previous studies focussed only on rainfall as a climatic variable (Ali 2012;Barrios et al 2010;Cabral 2014;Gilmont et al 2018;Hissler 2010;Miguel and Satyanath 2011;Richardson 2007;Tebaldi and Beaudin 2016). However, climate change affects precipitation patterns (Berlemann and Wenzel 2018); thus, climate change may impact economic growth as a result of the variability of rainfall (Ali 2012).…”

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“…They suggested that in Thailand, excessive rainfall resulted in income smoothing through asset transactions and off-farm employment changes, but the same was not found for drought events. Additionally, Tebaldi and Beaudin (2016) conducted an in-depth study of seasonal rainfall and found that spring droughts and summer floods severely affected northeastern Brazil, a region that has long been the country's poorest region. Finally, Brown et al (2013) investigated precipitation extremes in terms of drought and flood indices across 133 countries.…”

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“…Moreover, temperature and rainfall are two climatic variables typically represented in economic growth models, but there is greater focus on temperature. The existing literature has also suggested that temperature increases negatively affected economic growth (Akram 2012;Dell et al 2012;Lanzafame 2014;Sequeira et al 2018), whereas rainfall could have both positive (Brown et al 2013;Odusola and Abidoye 2015) and negative effects on gross domestic product (GDP) growth (Dell et al 2012;Tebaldi and Beaudin 2016).…”

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The Effect of Rainfall on Economic Growth in Thailand: A Blessing for Poor Provinces

Sangkhaphan

Yang

2019

Economies

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Rainfall is related to economic growth and generally has beneficial impacts on dry and poor areas that are mostly dependent on rainfed agriculture. Thailand is a service-based, upper middle-income country with a tropical climate although rainfall varies regionally. The volume of precipitation in the northern and northeastern regions is rather low while the southern region has the highest rainfall due to its narrow topography running north-south bordering the Andaman Sea to the west and the Gulf of Thailand to the east. The present study explored the effect of rainfall on the growth of the gross provincial product (GPP) by economic sector and subsector using provincial-level panel data from 1995 to 2015. The feasible generalised least squares (FGLS) estimator with fixed effect was used in the regression models. We found that the main impacts of the weather occurred through rainfall and reduced GPP growth at the national level. For the sector level, the results showed that rainfall had a significant negative impact on the agricultural and service sectors while it had a positive but not significant impact on the industrial sector. However, rainfall remains vital in poor regions although it could be detrimental to certain subsectors in those regions. The results confirmed that the positive effects of rainfall mostly affected the economies of poor provinces and suggested that average rainfall could be the key climate effect on economic growth in Thailand.

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“…The climatic variables of temperature and rainfall are often represented in economic growth models within the field of climate change, mostly focused on temperature. The available literatures suggests that increase in temperature has a negative impact on economic growth (Akram, 2012;Lanzafame, 2014;Sequeira, Santos, & Magalhães, 2018) whereas rainfall has both positive (Akram, 2012;Brown, Meeks, Ghile, & Hunu, 2013;Odusola & Abidoye, 2015) and negative impacts on economic growth (Dell, Jones, & Olken, 2012;Tebaldi & Beaudin, 2016). Until recently, few studies have examined and explored how rainfall is related to economic growth, with research conducted mostly in African countries (Ali, 2012;Barrios, Bertinelli, & Strobl, 2010;Berlemann & Wenzel, 2018;Cabral, 2014;Miguel & Satyanath, 2011;Richardson, 2007;Sebastien, 2010) such as Sub-Saharan Africa where rainfed agriculture is dominant (Borgomeo et al, 2018).…”

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Impact of Rainfall on Agricultural Growth in Thailand: Evidence in Farming and Fishing Activities

2019

JESD

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Rainfall is related to economic growth. This is especially true for the agricultural sector which is a key food source. Rainfall has beneficial impacts in both arid and poor regions. Thailand, as an upper middle-income country according to the World Bank, has a tropical climate although rainfall varies between each region. Precipitation in the northern and northeastern regions is low while the southern region, as a narrow strip of land running northsouth bordering the Andaman Sea to the West and the Gulf of Thailand to the East, has the highest rainfall. Agricultural product characteristics differ between regions. In arid areas, agrarian products are largely from farming while fisheries predominate in the southern region. The effect of rainfall on GDP growth was explored on a region-by-region basis using panel data from 2004 to 2015 at provincial level. The FGLS (Feasible Generalized Least Square) estimator was used in the regression models. Results showed that in northeastern and northern regions, rainfall stimulated economic growth in all dimensions of the agricultural sector and agricultural subsectors. The economic impact of rainfall played a major role in the fishing subsectors compared to the farming subsector. Overall, results identified the regions and agricultural subsectors that were economically profitable as a result of increased rainfall.

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Climate change and economic growth in Brazil

Cited by 13 publications

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Natural disasters, climate change, and their impact on inclusive wealth in G20 countries

Natural disasters, climate change, and their impact on inclusive wealth in G20 countries

The Effect of Rainfall on Economic Growth in Thailand: A Blessing for Poor Provinces

Impact of Rainfall on Agricultural Growth in Thailand: Evidence in Farming and Fishing Activities

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