Climate change and economic growth: a heterogeneous panel data approach

Sequeira, Tiago Neves; Santos, Marcelo; Magalhäes, Manuela

doi:10.1007/s11356-018-2305-7

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“…This is because most farming income is generated from these poorer regions, which are also rather dry. This finding was consistent with previous studies, which found that rainfall had positive impacts on the economic growth of poor and arid countries that were reliant on rainfed agriculture (Abidoye and Odusola 2015;Ali 2012;Lanzafame 2014;Miguel and Satyanath 2011;Sequeira et al 2018). In addition, the Mekong River is a major source of water for both northern and northeastern regions.…”

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“…Lanzafame (2014) also determined that the aggregated effects of rainfall positively influenced economic growth in Africa. Moreover, Sequeira et al (2018) confirmed the positive effect of higher precipitation in poor countries with either hot or temperate climates. Finally, Phatcharopaswatanagul (2018) showed that rainfall had a positive impact on cassava yields in Thailand.…”

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confidence: 55%

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

Sangkhaphan

Yang

2019

Economies

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“…Recent studies explored how rainfall impacted on economic growth and focused on countries with rainfed agriculture. African countries were widely studied with general overall agreement that rainfall positively affected economic growth (Abidoye & Odusola, 2015;Lanzafame, 2014;Miguel et al, 2011;Sequeira et al, 2018).…”

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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

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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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2019

Contributions to Economics

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The most effective way of studying a nation is to study its popular culture, "the world in which its people live, relax in and have fun in." Such a study would deal with areas like popular art, architecture, leisure-time activities, film, TV, radio, bestsellers, comics, magazines, fashions, urban folklore, games, popular music, work, women's roles, the sociology of everyday life, "the history of the unlettered inarticulate," image studies (iconology), and mass media history and analysis. Popular culture is truly catholic and comprehensive.Its study has immense possibilities. It opens u p new frontiers of learning, "borderlands of ideas, mores and customs." Already in the United States popular studies are being recognized as the spearhead of the "new humanities." calculated to correct the imbalances that now exist in the school and university curricula. Students all over the world are questioning the lack of relevance of much of what they learn. Since popular culture deals with the life around them it will certainly satisfy this need for relevance. The worst critics of popular culture studies agree that they are anything but dull. John Cawelti, an important academic critic, stated some years ago:It is too early to tell whether popular culture studies will develop as an independent discipline or will eventually be enfolded back into anthropology, cultural history, American studies and social psychology, but at the present time it is surely one of the liveliest and most stimulating areas on the American academic scene.'Another attractive feature of popular culture studies is that it is an interdisciplinary subject, and this has always appealed to students. Handling an interdisciplinary subject may pose certain challenges to the teacher but there is no doubt that the students love it. From the point of view of the teacher again there is the fascination of teaching something new, of examining topics that were never critically examined before, of finding new approaches to an exciting subject.One problem unique to the lndian situation is that of language. Culture revolves round language as recent studies by semioticians have confirmed. We have fifteen official languages recognized by the

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Climate change and economic growth: a heterogeneous panel data approach

Cited by 28 publications

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

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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