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couple of years. These include heightened global policy uncertainty, trade tensions, spillovers from weaker …
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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of...
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This paper provides a high-level assessment of Vietnam's sea dike system and its prescribed dike safety standards. The assessment estimates that 65 percent of the sea dike system does not meet the safety standards and that about USD 2 billion in capital investment is necessary to meet the...
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This paper presents a multisectoral risk assessment, analyzing natural risks faced by key drivers of socioeconomic development in coastal Vietnam. The analysis quantifies the exposure of assets and economic activity to the following natural hazards: riverine flooding, coastal flooding, typhoon...
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Recent advances in food insecurity classification have made analytical approaches to predict and inform response to food crises possible. This paper develops a predictive, statistical framework to identify drivers of food insecurity risk with simulation capabilities for scenario analyses, risk...
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Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in most scenarios. These results are commensurate with...
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. Fourth, firms are increasingly relying on digital solutions as a response to the shock. Fifth, there is great uncertainty …
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Severe weather shocks recurrently hit Malawi, and they adversely affect the incomes of many farm households as well as small businesses. With climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase further. A clear understanding of households' vulnerability to...
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, and survival in export markets. The analysis finds that uncertainty in the time to clear imported inputs impacts neither … mediating role of sunk costs of entry in foreign markets, which attenuate the negative effect of uncertainty on survival rates …, as firms delay exiting the export market. Most importantly, the measure of uncertainty displays a distinctive effect on …
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downside risks could increase wealth inequality in high- and low-output growth economies by 2030. Substantial uncertainty, as …
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