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The Price Incentive to Smuggle and the Cocoa Supply in Ghana, 1950-1996
Bulir, Ales - 1998
From the early 1960s to the early 1980s, the officially recorded production of cocoa in Ghana declined by 60 percent …. During the 1983–95 Economic Recovery Program, however, cocoa production doubled. Although these developments have inspired … much empirical research, most of the studies have been unable to explain the medium-term persistence of cocoa output to …
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How green are green debt issuers?
Schmittmann, Jochen Markus; Teng, Chua Han - 2021
Green debt markets are rapidly growing while product design and standards are evolving. Many policymakers and investors view green debt as an important component in the policy mix to achieve the transition to a low carbon economy and ensure the pricing of climate risks. Our analysis contributes...
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Emissions and growth : trends and cycles in a globalized world
Cohen, Gail; Jalles, João Tovar; Loungani, Prakash; … - 2017
Recent discussions of the extent of decoupling between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and real gross domestic product (GDP) provide mixed evidence and have generated much debate. We show that to get a clear picture of decoupling it is important to distinguish cycles from trends: there is an...
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Climate action to unlock the inclusive growth story of the 21st century
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Ivanyna, Maksym; Oman, William; … - 2021
-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the …
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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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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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What Makes Growth Sustained?
Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008
We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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On the Solvency of Nations : Are Global Imbalances Consistent with Intertemporal Budget Constraints?
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2010
Theory predicts that a nation''s stochastic intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied if net exports (NX) and net foreign assets (NFA) satisfy an error-correction specification with a residual integrated of any finite order. We test this hypothesis using data for 21 industrial and 29 emerging...
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Assessing Bias and Accuracy in the World Bank-IMF's Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries
Berg, Andrew - 2014
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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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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