This policy brief, Impact of Soil Loss in Malawi: Macroeconomic effect on GDP, sectoral adjustments and poverty, combines findings from a recent independent report based on microeconometric and computable general equilibrium analysis. The study aims to assess both direct and indirect economic impacts of soil loss at the aggregate level, providing effects on the GDP, poverty, terms of trade and sectoral production.
This report reviews the economic, regulatory, institutional and trade policy environments characterising the honey, cereal and walnut sectors, underlining their export and value-added potential in the Republic of Moldova, and provides a SWOT analysis and action plans to assist policymakers in realising this potential.
By 2050, nearly 10 billion people will live on the planet. Can we produce enough food sustainably? The synthesis report of the World Resources Report Creating a Sustainable Food Future shows that it is possible – but there is no silver bullet. This report offers a five-course menu of solutions to ensure we can feed everyone without increasing emissions, fueling deforestation or exacerbating poverty
If the Paris Agreement is to be implemented successfully, it is necessary that all actors step up their actions, including non-state actors such as businesses, cities, regions, and investors. While transparency is crucial, it is still largely missing from the drive to report on current actions and scale them up. The Climate Initiatives Platform (CIP) is a vital transparency tool for international cooperative climate initiatives (ICIs). Nearly 250 initiatives, driven mainly by non-state actors, are currently displayed by the CIP. More than 50 data points for each ICI are provided. In addition, CIP has become the exclusive data provider for ICIs to the UNFCCC Global Climate Action portal, NAZCA, and CIP data are used for several climate assessments, including UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report.
This report looks at key issues highlighted by the 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission), such as how to better include the environment and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being and of trust.
While GDP is the most well-known, and most powerful economic indicator, it can’t tell us everything we need to know about the health of countries and societies. In fact, it can’t even tell us everything we need to know about economic performance. This report looks at progress made over the past 10 years in collecting well-being data, and in using them to inform policies.