A shifting climate won’t just stunt crops in poor countries, it could devastate their entire economic growth, warn economists (Images: Sipa Press/Rex)
Global warming will not only devastate agriculture in developing countries, it will undermine economic and political stability to a far greater extent than previously imagined, according to new study.
The link between “high temperatures and poor growth is much stronger than we’d realised”, says , an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Crucially, says Olken, his team’s study is the first to link climate change with economic growth – as opposed to output – which…
