Ramesh Ghimire

Ramesh Ghimire is a faculty member at the University of Georgia (UGA), affiliated with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. His research spans environmental economics, public policy analysis, disaster management, and health economics. He has published extensively on topics such as flood impacts on conflict, housing policy, health disparities, and agricultural economics.

Key research areas include:

• Environmental Economics: Analyzing flood-induced migration and its link to armed conflict.
• Public Policy: Examining homeownership effects on community involvement and academic achievement.
• Health Economics: Investigating smoking-related productivity losses and linguistic barriers in healthcare access.
• Disaster Management: Studying how environmental disasters influence economic and social outcomes.

Recent publications (2020–2023) focus on metro Atlanta’s housing dynamics, automation’s labor market impacts, and farm lending biases. His work integrates survey data from initiatives like the Metro Atlanta Speaks Survey and the National Wilderness Manager Survey.

No scientific awards or grants/advising roles are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His research often intersects with policy implications, emphasizing demographic and geographic disparities.