This paper assesses the impact of climate-related disasters on medium-term growth and analyzes key structural areas … negative impact on medium-term growth, especially for sub-Saharan Africa; and (ii) a disaster's intensity matters much more …

After impressive growth in the 2000s, China's productivity has more recently stagnated. We use firm-level data to …'s business dynamism. We show that (i) the revenue share of young firms has declined, (ii) the life-cycle growth of young firms … relative to older incumbents has slowed, (iii) weaker life-cycle growth can be explained by slower productivity growth and …