Review Article
Uvesh Husain and Sa
Abstract
This study examines effect of climatic change on Indian economy from 1980-2016 and made use of quantitativeresearch design and secondary on climate change variables, GDP and population of India from 1980-2016. The datawas gotten from World bank data base and data.gov.in. E-views 9.0 and SPSS 22.0 was used for data analysis andstatistical methods such as Multiple Regression Analysis and Pearson Correlation was tested to examine the influenceof climate variables on economic growth of India. The finding of the study shows that climatic change variables (rainfalland temperature) with population jointly influenced economic growth of India while independently, rainfall and populationinfluenced economic growth of India and temperature was not significant. Also, a significant positive relationship withinpopulation and GDP was recorded and a negative correlation between temperature was also recorded. It was concludedin this study that climatic change has significant effect on economic growth of India, since substantial increase intemperature and rainfall could help in agricultural production which may in turn contribute to economic growth.