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Alice Tianbo Zhang
ECONOMICS FOR THE GREATER GOOD


One-third of global coal capital at risk from energy transition
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
Feb 18


Technical assistance mission to The Gambia
With colleagues in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, we visited The Gambia in May 2024 to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic of...
Sep 14, 2024


New policy paper on the macro challenges of the energy transition
New IMF paper explores the macroeconomic challenges faced by fossil fuel exporters during the energy transition.
Mar 27, 2024


New paper introducing the Global Dam Tracker
We published a new paper " Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information "...
Feb 28, 2023


New paper with the Climate Impact Lab in QJE
With the Climate Impact Lab, the new paper " Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs...
Nov 30, 2022


New paper on women's empowerment & energy access on the cover of Nature Energy
Our new paper " Evidence of multidimensional gender inequality in energy services from a large-scale household survey in India " is on...
Aug 3, 2022


New JOP paper on the political economy of wind power in the United States
We published a new paper " Electoral Backlash or Positive Reinforcement? Wind Power and Congressional Elections in the United States " in...
May 11, 2022
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