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Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear … dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the economic impact of climate change …, but research on how climate change affects sovereign risks is limited. Building on our previous research focusing on the …
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A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of temperature and precipitation. However, averages may not reveal the effects of extreme events that occur at a higher time frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address...
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constraint, macroeconomic policy and institutional capacity. This paper extends the literature by arguing that climate shocks may … improve economic growth, and the size of the effect increases with good absorptive capacity. However, climate shocks reduce … resilience to climate change. Actions are also needed at global level to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, and build strong …
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Climate change is a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies, and to the planet …’s habitability. A just transition to a low-carbon economy is the only viable way forward. This paper reviews the climate change … challenge. It stresses the criticality of systems changes (energy, transport, urban, land use, water) in a climate …
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What is the impact of climate change on inflation and growth dynamics? This is not a simple question to answer as … climate shocks tend to be ubiquitous, but with opposing effects simultaneously on demand and supply. The extent of which … climate-related shocks affect inflation and economic growth also depends on long-run scarring in the economy and the country …
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Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years. This paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience: that developing countries differ vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than...
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We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment in developing countries during 2001-07, a period of surging global liquidity and low interest rates. Reductions in the global price of risk and in domestic borrowing costs were...
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Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during...
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External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
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Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
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