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🌍How does economic development impact the relationship between climate and conflict in Africa—a region that's seen significant armed conflict in recent decades? By creating a detailed dataset combining climate shocks and conflict events with economic measures, Marshall Burke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel discover that higher national GDP per capita reduces the conflict risk linked to rising temperatures. Learn more about how stronger economies mean better state capacity to handle climate shocks: https://buff.ly/45pT7OE

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