So far, there are few individual studies attributing observed economic damages to long-term climate change except for damages induced by river flooding, droughts and tropical cyclones . In addition, the empirical findings on the sensitivity of macroeconomic development to weather fluctuations and extreme weather events have been used to estimate the cumulative effect of historical warming on long-term economic development : anthropogenic climate change is estimated to have reduced gross domestic product  growth over the last 50 years, with substantially larger negative effects on developing countries and in some cases positive effects on colder industrialised countries  . Globally, between- country inequality has decreased over the last 50 years. Climate change is estimated to have substantially slowed down this trend, that is, increased inequality compared with a counterfactual no-climate- change baseline  . On a regional level, decreasing rainfall trends in Sub-Saharan Africa may
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