Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear … credit ratings. By means of binary-choice models, we find that climate change vulnerability has adverse effects on sovereign …

space when the shock hits …

vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g. by education, ethnic group, and economic activity) and we quantify the impact …Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the …

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …

are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework. An exogenous technology shock transmitted via …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to … leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income levels emerge as the main drivers of vulnerability. We estimate that the …