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Fostering Global Cooperation
Henry Gao | 10 June 2022Blog, Trade | Tags: Climate Change, Digital Governance, Trade Governance, WTO
As the world enters 2022, the global trading system seems to be stuck in a deep crisis: the trade war between the US and China continues into another year with... continue reading
From Dependencies to Environmental Risks for Finance. Taking Next Steps
Chiara Colesanti Senni and Adrian von Jagow | 9 May 2022Blog, Monetary | Tags: Central Banks, Environmental Risks, Financial Supervision
Climate-related risks are now widely recognized as a source of financial risks by financial supervisors and central banks worldwide. Estimates of transition risks, which include risks stemming from the transition... continue reading
How Much Revenue Does Kosovo Forgo Through Tax Expenditures? We don’t know!
Flurim Aliu | 21 April 2022Blog, Fiscal | Tags: Tax Expenditures, Transparency
The traditional way of thinking about how states finance projects is as follows: first, governments collect revenue (through taxes, borrowing, payments, and fines) and then this revenue is spent through... continue reading
Is It Time to Rationalize Tax Expenditures?
Luisa Dressler, Sanjeev Gupta, Agustin Redonda and Paolo de Renzio | 19 April 2022Blog, Fiscal | Tags: Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform
As developing countries recover from the pandemic, they will need to bring their public finances to a more sustainable position, by streamlining public spending and strengthening the revenue base. The... continue reading
G7 Countries Must Urgently Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Agustin Redonda, Christian von Haldenwang and Ronald Steenblik | 8 April 2022Fiscal, Policy Briefs | Tags: Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The world’s governments have pledged to fight climate change, yet many still subsidize fossil fuels, the combustion of which increases GHG emissions. Phasing out these subsidies is thus vital to... continue reading
A Dashboard for Biodiversity Risk Metrics
Oliver Braunschweig, Chiara Colesanti Senni and David Lunsford | 24 March 2022Monetary, Policy Briefs | Tags: Biodiversity Risk, Central Banks
This policy brief calls on central banks and financial supervisors to build and use a dashboard of biodiversity metrics to assess biodiversity risks in terms of both dependencies and impacts.... continue reading