Unlike the Kyoto protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement is designed to allow for international cooperation in carbon markets through decentralized governance. Under this article, bilateral or plurilateral cooperation between participating parties can be...

Economic growth in the Sub-Saharan Africa region has been plagued by a series of shocks-wars, political instability, natural disasters, epidemics, terms-of-trade deterioration, and sudden stops in capital inflows-that have had lingering effects on productivity and growth. Within the overall...

Public procurement is one of the main cross-sectoral reforms that the Government of Lebanon committed to at the "Conference economique pour le developpement, par les reformes et avec les entreprises" (CEDRE) held in Paris in April 2018, in order to improve fiscal governance and the quality of...