TY - BOOK ID - 133463762 TI - Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Fragile States: Evidence from Panel Estimations AU - Maino, Rodolfo. AU - Emrullahu, Drilona. PY - 2022 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Environmental Economics KW - Environmental Conservation and Protection KW - Natural Disasters KW - Taxation KW - Environmental Economics: General KW - Climate KW - Natural Disasters and Their Management KW - Global Warming KW - Environmental Economics: Government Policy KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities KW - Redistributive Effects KW - Environmental Taxes and Subsidies KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Climate change KW - Natural disasters KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Environment KW - Greenhouse gas emissions KW - Income KW - National accounts KW - Carbon tax KW - Taxes KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Climatic changes KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Environmental impact charges UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133463762 AB - Fragile states in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face challenges to respond to the effects of climate shocks and rising temperatures. Fragility is linked to structural weaknesses, government failure, and lack of institutional basic functions. Against this setup, climate change could add to risks. A panel fixed effects model (1980 to 2019) found that the effect of a 1◦C rise in temperature decreases income per capita growth in fragile states in SSA by 1.8 percentage points. Panel quantile regression models that account for unobserved individual heterogeneity and distributional heterogeneity, corroborate that the effects of higher temperature on income per capita growth are negative while the impact of income per capita growth on carbon emissions growth is heterogeneous, indicating that higher income per capita growth could help reduce carbon emissions growth for high-emitter countries. These findings tend to support the hypothesis behind the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the energy consumption growth literature, which postulates that as income increases, emissions increase pari passu until a threshold level of income where emissions start to decline. ER -