Lifting the tax exemption for jet fuel used for international flights is a recurring demand from many stakeholders committed to sustainable development. Currently, this exemption keeps the carbon pricing of jet fuel at an excessively low level and is inconsistent with the decarbonisation...

This paper is an empirical study on the effects of export instability on corruption, in developed and developing countries. We consider that corrupt transactions may arise from the necessity to protect against the detrimental effects of income fluctuations on welfare. We assume that export...

We estimate the impact of Internet diffusion on local firm performance in developing and transition economies, by adopting an instrumental variable approach reflecting firm's vulnerability to seismic shocks upon the telecommunications submarine cable (SMC) network. IV within fixed-effect...

This paper estimates the impact of fiber-optic submarine cables (SMCs) deployment on the digital divide in 46 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It shows that the laying of SEACOM, MainOne and EASSy cables has yielded a 3-4% point increase in internet penetration rates. Moreover, it also shows...

IntroductionThe "revolving door" is a practice quite widely in use in the United States, in which heads of state agencies, after completing their bureaucratic terms, are entering the very sector they have regulated. This phenomenon is also frequent in France, where it is coined "pantouflage",...

The evidence of a "voracity effect" of revenue windfalls reducing growth by fostering rent-seeking and corruption is widely documented by the literature. However, the reverse hypothesis of a "scarcity effect" of revenue downfalls, stimulating corruption by creating resource shortages, has...

This document is aimed at presenting detailed calculation principles for annual retrospective series of the Economic Vulnerability Index according to the 2012 UN-CDP definitions. It is organized as successive technical sheets explaining EVI retrospective component calculation, reminding...