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Africa faces a climate-conflict poverty trap. Growth is the best solution

Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel, Solomon Hsiang
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New projections highlight the feedback loop between lower growth and increased conflict risk in Africa under climate change.
The authors have made slides available to accompany this research here.

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