The coronavirus crisis has stiffened debt and development-related headwinds that had become strong even before 2020. Sustaining development while maintaining debt sustainability has been made harder by the protracted effects of the pandemic on public finances, earnings and employment, and human...

This paper provides the first review of the adequacy of PRGT finances since the comprehensive reform of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) in July 2021. It describes the lending response to the unprecedented pandemic-related demand; updates the PRGT demand scenarios and the estimates...

Contents: Preface -- 1. The idea of economic growth -- 2. Why manage without growth? -- 3. Systems, information and prices -- 4. Pricing nature -- 5. Limits to growth - sources -- 6. Limits to growth - sinks and services -- 7. Limits to growth - synthesis -- 8. Scale, composition and technology...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. James E. Meade (1958), 'Is the National Debt a Burden?', Oxford Economic Papers, 10 (2), June, 163-83 -- 2. Franco Modigliani (1961), 'Long-Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt', Economic Journal, 71...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Piyabha Kongsamut, Sergio Rebelo and Danyang Xie (2001), 'Beyond Balanced Growth', Review of Economic Studies, 68 (4), October, 869-82 -- 2. Reto Foellmi and Josef Zweimüller (2008), 'Structural Change, Engle's Consumption Cycles and Kaldor's Facts...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth', in Henry Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality In a Growing Economy, Chapter One, Baltimore, MD, USA and London, UK: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-14 -- 2. Herman E. Daly (1974), 'The...

Contents: Introduction Roger Fouquet -- Part I. The growth strategy -- 1. Policies for green growth versus policies for no growth: A matter of timing / Richard G. Lipsey -- 2. The limits to green growth / Peter A. Victor and Martin Sers -- 3. Green "agrowth" - the next development stage of rich...

Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Trends and patterns in intra-ASEAN migration / Aiko Kikkawa and Eric B. Suan -- 2. Skilled migration in the literature: What we know, what we think we know, and why it matters to know the difference / Elisabetta Gentile -- 3. Economic impacts of skilled labor...