Climate change potentially affects the specialization of production and trade in agricultural markets. Previous studies suggest that changes in temperature and precipitation trend levels have a significant impact on yields, production, and commodity prices. This paper estimates the short-run and...

Climate and environment-related international private finance flows have considerably risen since the early 1990s. The evidence on both sectoral sensitivities and increased climate-relevant investments suggests a potential link between international investment flows and climate variables, which...

This working paper summarizes the annual estimates, for each of the world's main high-income countries, of key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics for the group's estimates. It begins with tables for the countries of Western Europe,...

Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies, which reduce national and global economic welfare and...

This working paper summarizes annual estimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRAs), for each of the focus economies of Europe's transition economies, their key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics for the region's...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the drivers of economic growth in South Asia region for the period of 1975–2016 using the World Bank data. Design/methodology/approach: Panel corrected standard error (static estimation) approach and one-step system generalised method of...