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Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency. Financing them requires the translation of those benefits into measurable returns on investment in the context of emerging risks that capital markets can understand and appreciate. This...
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In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
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Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks to recover from the falling growth, most regional economies need to rebalance their export-oriented (mostly to advanced economies)...
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Rural accessibility is the only metric used in the Sustainable Development Goals to track progress toward better transport services in low- and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the rural accessibility index, defined as the proportion of the rural population who live within 2...
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