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the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database, Luxembourg Income Study, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and …
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Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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. First, it presents a new database that offers a detailed assessment of the content of preferential arrangements, examining … the coverage and legal enforceability of provisions. The database covers 279 agreements signed by 189 countries between … 1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade …
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database allows the examination of the direct contribution of labor to exports as well as the indirect contribution via other … necessary information to build the Labor Content of Exports database from the original raw data, including stata do-files and …
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followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing …
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A star is born -- Freeing the world of poverty -- How much farther can we see? -- Where to now? …
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extremes considered highly unusual or unprecedented today would become the new climate normal-a world of increased risks and …, and reducing global inequality will be very challenging in a 2 Degree C world, but in a 4 Degree C world there is serious … felt today and the unavoidable consequences of a rapidly warming world. The benefits of strong, early action on climate …
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Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth-the assets such as infrastructure, forests, minerals, and human capital that produce GDP. In contrast, corporations routinely report on both their income and assets to assess their...
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