 | Unlocking Access to Climate Finance for Pacific Island Countries Author/Editor: Manal Fouad, Natalija Novta, Gemma Preston, Todd Schneider, Sureni Weerathunga. Release Date:September, 2021 This departmental paper provides an in-depth overview of access to climate finance for Pacific Island Countries, evaluating successes and challenges faced by countries and proposes a way forward to more...
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 | The Macroeconomic Costs of Conflict Author/Editor: Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva. Release Date:June, 2020 Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls more...
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| Manufacturing Jobs and Inequality: Why is the U.S. Experience Different? Author/Editor: Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva. Release Date:September, 2019 We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United more...
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| Weather Shocks and Output in Low-Income Countries: The Role of Policies and Adaptation Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Claudio Baccianti, Mico Mrkaic, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Petia Topalova. Release Date:August, 2019 We explore the extent to which macroeconomic policies, structural policies, and institutions can mitigate the negative relationship between temperature shocks and output in countries with warm more...
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| The Price of Capital Goods: A Driver of Investment Under Threat Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Yannick Timmer, Petia Topalova. Release Date:June, 2019 Over the past three decades, the price of machinery and equipment fell dramatically relative to other prices in advanced and emerging market and developing economies. Using cross-country and sectoral more...
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| The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact? Author/Editor: Sebastian Acevedo Mejia, Mico Mrkaic, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Petia Topalova. Release Date:June, 2018 Global temperatures have increased at an unprecedented pace in the past 40 years. This paper finds that increases in temperature have uneven macroeconomic effects, with adverse consequences more...
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| Calculating Trade in Value Added Author/Editor: Aqib Aslam, Natalija Novta, Fabiano Rodrigues-Bastos. Release Date:July, 2017 This paper sets out the key concepts necessary to calculate trade in value added using input-output tables. We explain the basic structure of an input-output table and the matrix algebra behind the more...
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| Women at Work in Latin America and the Caribbean Author/Editor: Natalija Novta, Joyce Wong. Release Date:February, 2017 Women across the world remain an underutilized resource in the labor force. Participation in the labor force averages around 80 percent for men but only 50 percent for women – nearly half of more...
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| A Balancing Act : Reform Options for Paraguay's Fiscal Responsibility Law Author/Editor: Antonio David, Natalija Novta. Release Date:November, 2016 Paraguay faces a trade-off between building fiscal credibility and amending the existing fiscal rule to accommodate infrastructure investment and provide space for countercyclical policies. In this more...
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| Public Employment and Compensation Reform During Times of Fiscal Consolidation Author/Editor: Lorenzo Forni, Natalija Novta. Release Date:October, 2014 This paper compiles and compares recent and past measures introduced to contain the public wage bill in a number of emerging and advanced economies to assess their effectiveness in bringing down more...
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