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Energy Subsidies and Energy Consumption — A Cross-Country Analysis
Charap, Joshua - 2014
The economic and environmental implications of energy subsidies have received renewed attention from policymakers and economists in recent years. Nevertheless there remains significant uncertainty regarding the magnitude of the impact of energy subsidies on energy consumption. In this paper we...
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Waiting for Godot? The Case for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Small Island States
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Global warming is the most significant threat to ecosystems and people’s health and living standards, especially in small island states in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing different options to scale up climate change mitigation and adaptation. In...
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Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from India
Bhalla, Surjit; Bhasin, Karan; Virmani, Arvind - 2022
The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme...
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The Fiscal and Welfare Impacts of Reforming Fuel Subsidies in India
Anand, Rahul - 2013
Rising fuel subsidies have contributed to fiscal pressures in India. A key policy concern regarding subsidy reform is the adverse welfare impact on households, in particular poor households. This paper evaluates the fiscal and welfare implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies...
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Inequality and Poverty in India : Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response
Arbatli, Elif C.; Coppo, Mattia; Khalil, Nasser; … - 2023
Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the...
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Cars and the Green Transition : Challenges and Opportunities for European Workers
Celasun, Oya; Sher, Galen; Topalova, Petia B.; Zhou, Jing - 2023
Reducing transport sector emissions is an important pillar of the green transition. However, the transition to electric vehicles (EV) portends major changes in vehicle manufacturing activity, on which many livelihoods in Europe depend. Using the heterogeneity across European countries in the...
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Boosting Competitiveness to Grow Out of Debt Can Ireland Find a Way Back to its Future?
Nkusu, Mwanza - 2013
This paper investigates the prospects for Ireland to grow its economy against the backdrop of high indebtedness. The … fiscal performance. The emerging conclusion is that Ireland, which has regained cost competitiveness following the crisis … conclusion. First, external demand is an important driver of exports and also the single most important determinant of Ireland …
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Signaling Fiscal Regime Sustainability
Drudi, Francesco - 2006
This paper proposes a signaling model that offers a new perspective on why governments deviate from optimal tax smoothing and delay debt stabilization. In our model, dependable - but not fully credible - governments have an incentive to tighten the fiscal regime when the signaling effect on...
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Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities in Ireland
Klein, Nir - 2016
The paper uses both macro- and micro-level data to assess how has the financial health of the Irish non-financial corporate (NFC) sector changed in the post financial crisis period. The analysis suggests that vulnerabilities have generally declined in recent years, but the NFC sector and...
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Forbearance Patterns in the Post-Crisis Period
Bergant, Katharina - 2021
Using supervisory loan-level data on corporate loans, we show that banks facing high levels of non-performing loans relative to their capital and provisions were more likely to grant forbearance measures to the riskiest group of borrowers. More specifically, we find that risky borrowers are more...
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