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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures: What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959476
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, with Emphasison Germany
Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as reductions in net carbon emissions; technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605334
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Financing the Response to Climate Change
Pattillo, Catherine A.; Bredenkamp, Hugh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
climate change. The idea is to create a “Green Fund†with the capacity to raise resources on a scale commensurate with the … up their climate change responses without delay. To achieve the necessary scale, the Green Fund would use an initial … could be channeled through existing climate funds, or via newly created special-purpose disbursement facilities. We are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123888
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Public Investment as an Engine of Growth
Warner, Andrew M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959467
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Kingdom of the Netherlands-Aruba; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245149
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Public Investment, Public Finance, and Growth: The Impact of Distortionary Taxation, Recurrent Costs, and Incomplete Appropriability
Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Effective public investment requires governments to address the "recurrent cost problem" to ensure operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures are sufficient to sustain the flow of productive public capital services to private factors of production. Building on the model of Buffie et al...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790277
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Guatemala; Selected Issues and Analytical Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243930
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Slowdown in Emerging Markets: Sign of a Bumpy Road Ahead?
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Following very strong growth during the period 2000–12, emerging market economies (EMEs) experienced a slowdown in the last couple of years. This paper examines the supply-side drivers of the strong growth performance of 63 EMEs and investigates if the recent slowdown in growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142160
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The Economic Performance Index (EPI): an Intuitive Indicator for Assessing a Country's Economic Performance Dynamics in an Historical Perspective
Khramov, Vadim; Lee, John Ridings - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Existing economic indicators and indexes assess economic activity but no single indicator measures the general macro-economic performance of a nation, state, or region in a methodologically simple and intuitive way. This paper proposes a simple, yet informative metric called the Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990724
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Factor Endowment, Structural Coherence, and Economic Growth
Che, Natasha Xingyuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper studies the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. Structural coherence is defined as the degree that a country's industrial structure optimally reflects its factor endowment fundamentals. The paper found that at least for the overall capital, the shares of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878416