Climate Change and Trade Openness in SADC Countries, 1990-2024

Olanrewaju Adewole Adediran's dataset investigates the effect of climate change on environmental degradation in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. It uses World Bank indicator data from 1990 to 2024 to construct indices for climate change and environmental degradation via principal component analysis. The 9.5 KB Excel file contains the data used for econometric models including Driscoll-Kraay and Panel-Corrected Standard Errors estimators.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between climate change indices and environmental degradation based on constructed principal components.
• Analyzing the impact of trade openness on environmental outcomes in the SADC region.
• Testing econometric models for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity using DKSE and PCSE estimators.
• Assessing regional vulnerability, as the description notes 30% of the SADC region is critically exposed to climate hazards.

Strengths

• Data covers a 34-year time range from 1990 to 2024.
• Analysis employs advanced econometric techniques (DKSE, PCSE) to control for panel data issues.
• Focus is on a specific and policy-relevant region: the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated summary data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

World Bank indicator

Collection Method

Data sourced from the World Bank and processed with principal component analysis to construct indices.

Time Range

1990 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-06 17:39:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries