Chandan Sapkota's blog

Ecuador has sealed a debt-for-nature swap selling a new 'blue bond' of $656 million (Galapagos Bond) with 5.645% coupon. Ecuador sov...

Here is Ricardo Hausmann advising a finance minister from a developing country to plan for decarbonization and focus on six themes to explo...

 Abstract from a new NBER working paper : Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of glob...

Carbon pricing or taxation is a popular climate change mitigation strategy.  However, the distributional effect seems to be different depend...

AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis , the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report submitted by Working Group I is out now. The repor...

This blog post is adapted from Macroeconomic Update , August 2014, Vol.2, No.2. Here are earlier blog posts on real sector , fiscal sector ,...

Here is the presentation on Macroeconomic Update Nepal , August 2014 from today’s media briefing. Macroeconomic Update August 2014_2014-09-...

A new ADB report on the costs of climate change and adaptation (full report here ) argues that Nepal would see economic losses equivalent ...

Below is an abstract of one of my research papers (co-authored) recently published in Energy Policy journal: Renewable energy diffusion in...

In its new report ( Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided ), the World Bank has warned of “a cascade of cataclysmic ch...

Dani Rodrik assesses the relevant of MDG indicators and the global development or assistance framework in the post-MDG era: Contribution o...

By analyzing the historical fluctuation in temperature in 125 countries between 1950 and 2003, Dell, Jones and Olken (ungated version here ...

Here is how trade contributes to climate change: The reduction in average tariffs in major export destinations and the booming trade has als...