We ask if bank supervisors’ efforts to combat climate change affect banks' lending and their borrowers’ transition to the carbon-neutral economy. Combining information from the French supervisory agency’s climate pilot exercise with borrowers' emission data, we first show that banks that...

Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable households is essential to hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure and vulnerability framework that is often used to understand the physical impacts of...

The growth has been linked to foreign direct investment inflows. This paper examines whether FDI in extractive sector enhances growth, using data from seven MENA oil producing countries; namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran over the period 1980 to...

The paper mainly focuses on the link between carbon emission and sources of economic development such as investment, saving, income distribution and labor market fluctuations. By employing the Structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach, the paper investigates that if there is a...

The objective of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investments (FDI) in extractive sector enhances growth, using data from seven MENA oil producing countries; namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran over the period 1980 to 2004. We employ...

Chapter 1. Foreword- Sustainable and Resilient Economies, Theoretical Considerations (Taha Chaiechi) -- Chapter 2. Conference Keynote- After COVID-19: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Economies for Resilience (Hurriyet Babacan) -- Chapter 3. An MMT Perspective on How Agenda 30 Could Be...