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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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Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....
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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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We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with...
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The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does find a strong statistical connection between horizontal...
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We study the long-term impact of climate change on economic activity across countries, using a stochastic growth model … where labor productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables-defined as deviations of temperature and … vary significantly across countries depending on the pace of temperature increases and variability of climate conditions …
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This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have...
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Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between child...
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Advances in artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to be labor-saving and to increase inequality and poverty around the globe. They also give rise to winner-takes-all dynamics that advantage highly skilled individuals and countries that are at the forefront of technological...
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Rising income inequality has emerged as a major policy issue facing policymakers, but there is a dearth of empirical work on inequality in small states, including the Caribbean. Despite data limitations, the empirical analysis using a sample of small states finds that increased openness and...
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