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Blog Post
November 03, 2022
Pull financing is a powerful but underused mechanism for incentivising progress on hard-to-tackle social problems for which innovation or the take up of innovation may be part of the solution. In a new paper, published today, we argue that pull financing can play an important role in the generation ...
Blog Post
September 06, 2022
Across Africa, every country has designed its energy mix to include a transition away from fossil fuels. How the different regions of the world contribute to a climate solution will become progressively more fraught given that culpability for the crisis is differentiated. Because African countries’ ...
WORKING PAPERS
June 25, 2022
We use new, detailed oil data and an event-study design to analyze political change in 36 oil-producing countries that experienced at least 10 years of declining production. We find that when their production starts to decline, they become significantly more democratic, relative to both the overall ...
POLICY PAPERS
June 08, 2022
The push for the World Bank and others to link their investments to addressing climate concerns stems from a fear that, unless developing countries take action to decarbonize now, their economic growth will lead to vast emissions that will derail all global efforts to limit climate change.