Selected poster presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA

Type Conference Paper
Title Selected poster presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
URL http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103999/2/Climate Change Laos.pdf
Abstract
The climate change is global problems. It is predicted to have more severe impact on developing country which most of population are poor. The main impact of climate change on poverty is changing crop productivity and commodity prices. However, there are few studies on the relationship between climate change and poverty. Therefore, this study will use Laos which has a high share of agriculture sector on GDP and high poverty rates as a case study to assess the impact the climate change on national wideeconomy and climate change using CGE model. The preliminary result shows that climate change has serious impact of Lao economy in term of declining GDP. On the other hand, the micro-simulation indicates that the impact on poverty was negligible. This is because the households in Laos are autarky and not affected by the changes of prices and wages due to climate change.

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