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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in small developing states with climate vulnerabilities : cost and financing

Tiedemann, Johanna; Piatkov, Veronica; Prihardini, Dinar; … - 2021

Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these challenges relate to the small size and limited diversification of their economies. SDS are also among the most vulnerable countries to the impact of climate change and natural...

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Climate action to unlock the inclusive growth story of the 21st century

Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Ivanyna, Maksym; Oman, William; … - 2021

Climate change is a major threat to the sustainability and inclusiveness of our societies, and to the planet's habitability. A just transition to a low-carbon economy is the only viable way forward. This paper reviews the climate change challenge. It stresses the criticality of systems changes...

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How green are green debt issuers?

Schmittmann, Jochen Markus; Teng, Chua Han - 2021

Green debt markets are rapidly growing while product design and standards are evolving. Many policymakers and investors view green debt as an important component in the policy mix to achieve the transition to a low carbon economy and ensure the pricing of climate risks. Our analysis contributes...

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Back to the future : fiscal rules for regaining sustainability in Belize

Cevik, Serhan - 2019

This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation model to determine the optimal set of fiscal rules. The empirical analysis shows that fiscal policy in Belize has been significantly procyclical and unsustainable much of the...

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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021

Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

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Crop selection and international differences in aggregate agricultural productivity

Alvarez, Jorge A.; Berg, Claudia - 2019

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...

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Importing inputs for climate change mitigation : the case of agricultural productivity

García-Verdú, Rodrigo; Meyer Cirkel, Alexis; … - 2019

This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...

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Structural transformation and the agricultural wage gap

Alvarez, Jorge A. - 2017

A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors … speaks against the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently … gap level observed and its decline as the economy transitioned out of agriculture …

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Women's opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan African job markets

Dieterich, Christine; Huang, Anni; Thomas, Alun - 2016

alternative avenue to escape low-paid jobs in agriculture, but the increase in per capita income is lower than male …

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