2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Beyond Malthus in least developed regions: Gender inequality, environmental and demographic changes
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20K22121
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Income gender gap / environmental change / climate change / poverty / wealth distribution |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My second paper, in collaboration with Prof. Matthias Kalkuhl (MCC Berlin and University of Potsdam) and Prof. Chryovalantis Vasilakis (Bangor University), has been completed and circulated as ISER Discussion Paper 1190 and IZA Working Paper 15646.
We argue in this paper that, among other factors, climate change should be responsible for education gender gap, slow demographic transition, and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Notably, we provide a novel mechanism linking the dynamic interaction between local resources and population under the persistent effect of climate change to explain the slow demographic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our main theoretical predictions have been supported by our empirical evidences derived from data of 44 Afican countries in the period 1960-2017.
The findings of this research would be important for designing public policies towards multiple sustainable development goals for Sub-Saharan Africa. Our research suggests that improving basic infrastructures, e.g. electricity coverage and piped clean water system, may be very essential for triggering female empowerment and development for Sub-Saharan Africa.
My first paper titled “Climate policy and wealth distribution” now officially appear in Volume 27 of Environmental Modeling and Assessment. The details of this research was reported last year.
In addition, in other projects collaborated with German scholars, two other papers of mine have been accepted for publication in Fisheries Research and in Marine Resource Economics.
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