🆕 How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development Today on VoxDev, Antonella Bancalari (Institute for Fiscal Studies) & Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) outline their research on Peru: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

How Vietnam managed to decouple economic/urban growth and pollution. This is a great @voxdev.bsky.social column voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

Trade and the environment: How Vietnam gained from the US-China trade war

Contrary to the Pollution Haven hypothesis, air quality did not deteriorate in Vietnamese cities where urban economic growth has been most rapid. How did Vietnam decouple growth from environmental deg...

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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

📢 New Working Paper Alert! 🧵 “Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures, and Local Economies” with @juanpablorud.bsky.social We study whether inter-governmental transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity. ifs.org.uk/publications...

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies @bancalaria.bsky.social and @juanpablorud.bsky.social study whether transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity in low income areas. Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

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