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How green are green debt issuers?
Schmittmann, Jochen Markus; Teng, Chua Han - 2021
bond issuers relative to other firms, but no difference for green loan and sustainability-linked loan borrowers. Green bond …, green loan, and sustainability-linked loan borrowers lower their emission intensity over time at a faster rate than other …
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Will the economic impact of COVID-19 persist? : prognosis from 21st century pandemics
Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2021
COVID-19 has had a disruptive economic impact in 2020, but how long its impact will persist remains unclear. We offer a prognosis based on an analysis of the effects of five previous major epidemics in this century. We find that these pandemics led to significant and persistent reductions in...
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Back to the future : fiscal rules for regaining sustainability in Belize
Cevik, Serhan - 2019
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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Growth in Switzerland : Can Better Performance Be Sustained?
Gagales, Anastassios - 2002
Swiss growth performance in the past quarter century has been mediocre. The paper finds that conditional income convergence contributes significantly to slow growth and the poor performance of the domestically oriented sectors has been a drag on growth. However, slow growth is not inescapable....
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Climate action to unlock the inclusive growth story of the 21st century
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Ivanyna, Maksym; Oman, William; … - 2021
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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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in small developing states with climate vulnerabilities : cost and financing
Tiedemann, Johanna; Piatkov, Veronica; Prihardini, Dinar; … - 2021
Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these challenges relate to the small size and limited diversification of their economies. SDS are also among the most vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change and natural...
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Global smartphone sales may have peaked : what next?
Mongardini, Joannes; Radzikowski, Aneta - 2020
since declined, contributing negatively to world trade in 2019 and suggesting that the global market may now be saturated …
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The effect of tariffs in global value chains
Eugster, Johannes; Jaumotte, Florence; MacDonald, Margaux; … - 2022
This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using global input-output matrices, we construct four different tariff measures that capture the direct and indirect exposure to tariffs at different stages of the production chain for...
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Multiple dimensions of Human Development Index and public social spending for sustainable development
Paliova, Iana; McNown, Robert F.; Nülle, Grant - 2019
Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...
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Limits to private climate change mitigation
Elmalt, Dalya; Igan, Deniz; Kirti, Divya - 2021
world. Discouragingly, our analysis uncovers at best a weak relationship: firms with better ESG scores do display somewhat …
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