Founded as a framework for economic cooperation to avoid devaluations that contributed to the Great Depression, IMF now focuses on sustainable economic growth; 1,420 documents mention “sustainability”; books on carbon taxes and pricing, energy subsidy reform, fiscal policy and climate change
Publications:
- A library of reports, research papers, policy papers, etc.
- A database of economic and other relevant Data
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- Fiscal Policies for Paris Climate Strategies—from Principle to Practice (May 2019, 109p.) – Discusses “the role of, and provides practical country-level guidance on, fiscal policies for implementing climate strategies using a unique and transparent tool laying out trade-offs among policy options.”
- Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (October 2019, 59p.) – A study of the long-term impacts of climate change on economic activity” based on a panel data set of 174 countries over the years 1960 to 2014. It is based on “using a stochastic growth model where labor productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables—defined as deviations of temperature and precipitation from their historical norms.”