Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa?
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- Henderson, J. Vernon & Storeygard, Adam & Deichmann, Uwe, 2017. "Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa?," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 60-82.
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Keywords
Africa; Urbanization; Climate Change;JEL classification:
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-09-24 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2018-09-24 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-GEO-2018-09-24 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-RES-2018-09-24 (Resource Economics)
- NEP-URE-2018-09-24 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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