Lowering fertility in poorest countries can facilitate economic growth, poverty reduction, and help avert some of the projected global warming, with family planning programs being highly pro-poor.

Population, Poverty, and Climate Change

Natural disasters have a unidirectional causality to financial and economic growth in the Philippines, highlighting the need for effective disaster risk-reduction strategies and risk management practices.

How Do Natural Disasters Influence the Rate of Poverty?

Climate-related natural disasters negatively impact Africa's economic growth, agriculture, poverty, and armed conflicts, while international aid has a small positive effect and may crowd-out cereal production.

The Impact of Climate-Change-Related Disasters on Africa’s Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Conflicts: Can Humanitarian Aid and Food Assistance Offset the Damage?

Climate change-related natural disasters have varied impacts on societies and economies, with disproportionate impacts on women, the young, elderly, and ethnic or racial minorities.

Climate change and natural disasters: macroeconomic performance and distributional impacts

Trade openness and natural disaster frequency contribute to the accumulation of natural capital in G20 countries, while climate change and GDP have no positive impact on this component of inclusive wealth.

Natural disasters, climate change, and their impact on inclusive wealth in G20 countries

Countries with higher income inequality experience greater damages from natural disasters, creating a vicious cycle that traps them in a disasters-inequality trap.

The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality

Climate-related natural disasters negatively impact economic growth, but do not increase the risk of armed civil conflict through their impact on GDP growth.

Climate-related natural disasters, economic growth, and armed civil conflict

Inequality negatively impacts economic growth, but its negative effect is concentrated in countries with high poverty, suggesting policies targeting poverty alleviation may have a greater impact on growth.

Inequality, poverty and economic growth

Climate change intensifies global inequality and poverty, reinforces urbanization, and boosts migration from low- to high-latitude areas, but it is unlikely to cause massive international migration flows under current laws and policies.

Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration

Climate change and biodiversity have complex, negative impacts on poverty and inequality, with some exceptions.

Environment and Inequality: A Complex Relationship

Natural disasters in the Philippines, particularly the frequency and magnitude of recent events, may contribute to extreme wealth and power inequalities, highlighting the need for effective relief mechanisms.

A history of poverty: The politics of natural disasters in the Philippines, 1985–95

Better governance reduces child poverty, but the negative effects of natural disasters on child poverty remain independent of a country's institutional efficiency.

What Is the Association between Absolute Child Poverty, Poor Governance, and Natural Disasters? A Global Comparison of Some of the Realities of Climate Change

Low-income households in Sri Lanka, heavily dependent on natural resources, experience greater financial losses from floods and droughts than high-income households.

Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Flood and Drought Impact in a Rural Sri Lankan Community

Good development and climate-informed policies can prevent most climate-related impacts, but emissions-reduction policies must be integrated for long-term poverty reduction and climate change mitigation.

Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

Good development and climate-informed policies can prevent most climate-related impacts, but a comprehensive approach is needed to address poverty and climate change.

Natural disasters significantly increase the risk of violent civil conflict, particularly in low- and middle-income countries with high inequality, mixed political regimes, and sluggish economic growth.

Natural Disasters and the Risk of Violent Civil Conflict

Natural disasters significantly impact the mental and physical health of vulnerable populations, emphasizing the need for disaster relief and social capital fostering strategies.

The impact of climate change and natural disasters on vulnerable populations: A systematic review of literature

Poor people are often disproportionally exposed to floods and droughts, particularly in urban areas, and this exposure may not significantly change under future climate scenarios.

Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts

Natural disasters in Vietnam significantly worsen household expenditure poverty and inequality, and should be considered in poverty alleviation policy design.

The impact of natural disasters on household income, expenditure, poverty and inequality: evidence from Vietnam

Natural disasters and climate change are expected to negatively impact agriculture in Vietnam, with rice production being most affected, and Central Highland and North-West regions being the most vulnerable.

The Impact of Natural Disasters and Climate Change on Agriculture: Findings From Vietnam

How do growth, inequality, poverty, climate change, and natural disasters interact with each other?

These studies suggest that growth, inequality, poverty, climate change, and natural disasters interact in complex ways, where climate change and natural disasters negatively impact economic growth and exacerbate poverty and inequality, while policies targeting poverty reduction and disaster risk management can mitigate some of these effects.