Impact of climate change on the indian economy: Evidence from food grain yields

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Gupta, Shreekant ^a,b   Sen, Partha ^a   Srinivasan, Suchita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Graduate Institute of International Development Studies   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

agricultural impacts; Climate change; developing countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006208070     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007814500018     Document Type: Article

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