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Climate change is a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies, and to the planet …-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the … and innovation policies, building resilience and adaptation, better measurement of well-being and sustainability, and …
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sustainability for three fast-growing Southeast Asian economies: Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. We show that a gradual public … challenge of addressing large infrastructure gaps while maintaining debt sustainability …
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Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and inefficient oil-based energy sector. In this paper we use a two-sector, open-economy, dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of varying fiscal policy instruments one...
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sustainability in Cameroon. We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of such investment on … significant contribution to growth, while maintaining fiscal sustainability …
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This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation … debt sustainability. It recommends integrating such rules into a well-designed fiscal responsibility law and establishing …
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In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced, emerging and low-income) for the period 1980-2014. By means of Fully-Modified OLS and (Pooled) Mean Group estimators, we find that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and...
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The World Bank and the IMF have adopted a debt sustainability framework (DSF) to evaluate the risk of debt distress in …
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This paper inquires into how individual attitudes to climate issues and support for climate policies have evolved in the context of the pandemic. Using data from a unique survey of 14,500 individuals across 16 major economies, this study shows that the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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educational attainment would raise Canada's overall labor productivity growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point a year. This suggests …
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This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple …-term unemployment rate (which would raise equilibrium unemployment rates). However, over the medium term, we expect Canada's potential …
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