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...

Environmental sustainability is perhaps the key societal challenge of our times. Achieving it will require a significant level of financing and investment, and here the role of the banking industry is fundamental. Banks can play a broader and far-reaching role by adopting environmental concerns...

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...

Indian and Chinese economies are growing rapidly among the Asian countries due to economic reforms. The prime objective of this study was to compare and analyze the economic status (in terms of economic growth, FDI inflows, export and import, remittance, labor force, tax and tariff) of both the...

The main purpose of this study is to determine the impact of RTAs (Regional Trade Agreement) on the trade relation between the member and the non member countries of the agreement and also to determine the winners and losers in this relatively new form of trade. In order to establish this impact...

Internationalization of banking institutions has been more evident to a greater extent recently due to the advancement of technology and global inter-connectedness of the business world. As the "engine of economic growth" banks are the dominant players in Bangladesh financial market. Due to...