The influence of climate on economic growth is a topic of growing interest. Few studies have investigated the potential … role that climate hazards and their cumulative effects have on the growth prospects for a country. Due to the relatively … growth and activity. The results indicate that precipitation extremes (floods and droughts) are the dominant climate …

poverty are scenarios with slow structural change away from agriculture, low productivity growth in agriculture, high … population growth, and low redistribution levels. Conversely, in scenarios with rapid, inclusive, and climate …

's institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

institutions due to the adverse and possibly abrupt impacts on investment and economic growth, fiscal revenue and expenditure, debt …

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … efficiency alone is not sufficient to offset the effects of growth in scale. Instead, structural change in the economy shapes … alongside degrading local environments and higher income growth poses a global burden through carbon. Local economic structure …