The Asia-Pacific region produces close to 80 percent of the world's coal and is home to the largest coal exporters (Australia and Indonesia) and importers (India, Japan, China). As the global energy transition accelerates, the question for the region is not whether coal demand will decline, but how fast, for whom, and what happens to the capital already invested. In a new IMF working paper with John Spray and Sneha Thube, " The Economic Implications of the Energy Transition i

With colleagues in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, we visited The Gambia in May 2024 to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic of...

New IMF paper explores the macroeconomic challenges faced by fossil fuel exporters during the energy transition.

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With the Climate Impact Lab, the new paper " Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs...

Our new paper " Evidence of multidimensional gender inequality in energy services from a large-scale household survey in India " is on...

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