An outline of the case for a ‘green’ stimulus (2009)
Bowen, Alex, Fankhauser, Samuel, Stern, Nicholas, Zenghelis, Dimitri
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
Lord Stern of Brentford is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
Lord Stern of Brentford is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
Lord Stern of Brentford is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
Lord Stern of Brentford is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.
Right for the right reasons: a final rejoinder on the Stern Review (2008)
Dietz, Simon, Anderson, Dennis, Stern, Nicholas, Taylor, Chris, Zenghelis, Dimitri
Climate change, innovation and jobs (2008)
Fankhauser, Samuel, Sehlleier, Friedel, Stern, Nicholas
The employment effect of climate policy has emerged as an important concern of policy makers, not least in the USA. Yet the impact of climate policy on jobs is complex. In the short term, jobs will...
A new global deal on climate change (2008)
Hepburn, Cameron, Stern, Nicholas
A global target of stabilizing greenhouse-gas concentrations at between 450 and 550 parts per million carbon-dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e) has proven robust to recent developments in the science and...
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
This paper outlines a comprehensive set of proposals to advance the climate change debate on the road to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 15th Conference of the Parties in...
Key elements of a global deal on climate change (2008)
This paper outlines a comprehensive set of proposals to advance the climate change debate on the road to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 15th Conference of the Parties in...
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank ABCDE Oslo Keynote Speech (2007)
Learning lessons about development and development assistance 5 Goals and approaches to development: The evolution in thinking 7 A strategy for development: Building the investment climate and...
CUTS: Consumer Unity and Trust Society (2007)
Nicholas Stern, Caroline Freund, Ekaterina Krivonos, To Shahrokh Fardoust, Sadiq Ahmed, Stephen Howes, ...
earlier draft.
Pradeep Mitra, Nicholas Stern, World Bank
exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the...
The interaction between economic growth and poverty has long been a central theme of economics. An early and influential view of the development process was set out by Arthur Lewis (1954). According...
CUTS: Consumer Unity and Trust Society (2007)
Nicholas Stern, Caroline Freund, Ekaterina Krivonos, To Shahrokh Fardoust, Sadiq Ahmed, Stephen Howes, ...
earlier draft.
Development Economics Vice Presidency of the World Bank (2007)
Ian Goldin, Halsey Rogers, Nicholas Stern
Foreign aid is increasingly a catalyst for change, and it is helping to create conditions in which poor people are able to raise their incomes and to live longer, healthier, and more productive...
Jel Codes E, Jorge Araujo, Gerald Barney, Nicholas Carter, Hamid Davoodi, Cevdet Denizer, ...
foreign aid
Right for the right reasons: a final rejoinder on the Stern review (2007)
Dietz, Simon, Stern, Nicholas, Anderson, Dennis, Taylor, Chris, Zenghelis, Dimitri
Right for the right reasons: a final rejoinder on the Stern review (2007)
Dietz, Simon, Stern, Nicholas, Anderson, Dennis, Taylor, Chris, Zenghelis, Dimitri
Stern review on the economics of climate change (2006)
The first half of the Review focuses on the impacts and risks arising from uncontrolled climate change, and on the costs and opportunities associated with action to tackle it. A sound understanding...
Stern review on the economics of climate change (2006)
The first half of the Review focuses on the impacts and risks arising from uncontrolled climate change, and on the costs and opportunities associated with action to tackle it. A sound understanding...
The future of the IMF and World Bank: panel discussion (2003)
Fisher, Stanley, Meltzer, Allan, Sachs, Jeffrey, Stern, Nicholas
The future of the IMF and World Bank: panel discussion (2003)
Fisher, Stanley, Meltzer, Allan, Sachs, Jeffrey, Stern, Nicholas
The future of the IMF and World Bank: panel discussion (2003)
Fisher, Stanley, Meltzer, Allan, Sachs, Jeffrey, Stern, Nicholas
Public Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (2003)
In this paper, I would like to outline an approach to public policy that focused on fighting poverty and is based on an understanding of growth and development. Such a public policy requires...
Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima (2000)
Atkinson, Anthony, Glennerster, Howard, Stern, Nicholas
Chapter 1 Foreword Ralf Dahrendorf, House of Lords, London Chapter 2 Introduction Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics Chapter 3 Morishima's Economics: An Appreciation Meghnad Desai, London...
Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima (2000)
Atkinson, Anthony, Glennerster, Howard, Stern, Nicholas
Chapter 1 Foreword Ralf Dahrendorf, House of Lords, London Chapter 2 Introduction Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics Chapter 3 Morishima's Economics: An Appreciation Meghnad Desai, London...
Fifty Years of Development (2000)
Paul Collier, David Dollar, Nicholas Stern
this paper: the importance of complementing macroeconomic, trade, and capital account reform, with institutional development -- in this case, development of the institutions for monitoring,...
Transition report 1999 - ten years of transition (1999)
Ten years of transition; Progress and patterns in transition; Macroeconomic performance and prospects; Structural change in transition; The politics of economic reform; Governance in transition;...
Transition report 1999 - ten years of transition (1999)
Ten years of transition; Progress and patterns in transition; Macroeconomic performance and prospects; Structural change in transition; The politics of economic reform; Governance in transition;...
Transition report 1999 - update (1999)
The Transition Report offers an in-depth analysis of economic progress in 29 countries from central Europe to central Asia, including, for the first time, Mongolia. Drawing on the EBRD's experience...
Transition report 1999 - update (1999)
The Transition Report offers an in-depth analysis of economic progress in 29 countries from central Europe to central Asia, including, for the first time, Mongolia. Drawing on the EBRD's experience...
Fries, Steven, Stern, Nicholas, Raiser, Martin
The EBRD's Steven Fries, Nicholas Stern and Martin Raiser look at why the 'contagion' spread from east Asia to eastern Europe
Fries, Steven, Stern, Nicholas, Raiser, Martin
The EBRD's Steven Fries, Nicholas Stern and Martin Raiser look at why the 'contagion' spread from east Asia to eastern Europe
Promoting an effective market economy in a changing world (1997)
Buiter, Willem H., Lago, Richard, Stern, Nicholas
In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is...
Development strategy and management of the market economy (1997)
Malinvaud, Edmond, Milleron, Jean-Claude, Nabli, Mustapha, Sen, Amartya K., Sengupta, Arjun, Stern, Nicholas, ...
Development strategy and management of the market economy (1997)
Malinvaud, Edmond, Milleron, Jean-Claude, Nabli, Mustapha, Sen, Amartya K., Sengupta, Arjun, Stern, Nicholas, ...
Promoting an effective market economy in a changing world (1996)
Buiter, Willem H., Lago, Richard, Stern, Nicholas
In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is...
Promoting an effective market economy in a changing world (1996)
Buiter, Willem H., Lago, Richard, Stern, Nicholas
In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is...
Effective demand, enterprise reforms and public finance in China (1991)
Hussain, Athar, Stern, Nicholas, Burda, Michael, Newbery, David
Effective demand, enterprise reforms and public finance in China (1991)
Hussain, Athar, Stern, Nicholas, Burda, Michael, Newbery, David
Lanjouw, Peter, Stern, Nicholas
The meaning and identification of poverty are examined using three indicators of standard of living in the North Indian village of Palanpur. The first is intended as a measure of “apparent...
Promoting an Effective Market Economy in a Changing World
Buiter, Willem H, Lago, Ricardo, Stern, Nicholas (Sir)
In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is...
Mitra, Pradeep, Stern, Nicholas
How have tax systems, whose primary role is to raise resources to finance public expenditures, evolved in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? The authors find...
The growth theories of the 1950s and 1960s emphasized capital accumulation and technical progress as explanations of growth. More recently theoretical attention has focused on the understanding of...
Dreze, Jacques H., Arrow, Kenneth, Atkinston, Anthony B., Basu, Kaushik, Honkapohja, Seppo, Krueger, Anne, ...
The Employment of Married Women in the United Kingdom 1970-83.
Gomulka, Joanna, Stern, Nicholas
The proportion of married women in employment in the United Kingdom grew rapidly during the 1970s, rising from around 50 to 60 percent. The paper investigates this change using a time series of cross...
Taxation for developing countries
Ahmad, Ehtisham, Stern, Nicholas, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Tax Reform and Shadow Prices for Pakistan.
Ahmad, Ehtisham, Stern, Nicholas
The assumption, which is common in tax analysis, that producer prices are undistorted may not be appropriate, particularly for developing countries. Where shadow prices (social opportunity costs) and...
Simon Dietz, Chris Hope, Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis
Those who deny the importance of strong and urgent action on climate change essentially offer one of, or a combination of, the following arguments. First, there are those who deny the scientific link...
Lorraine Hamid, Nicholas Stern, Chris Taylor
This paper highlights the basic economic principles behind the policy recommendations in the Stern Review and takes forward the analysis and proposals of the Review. It is written in the light of...
Simon Dietz, Dennis Anderson, Nicholas Stern, Chris Taylor, Dimitri Zenghelis
Four authors of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and Dennis Anderson who provided advice and background papers for the Review, make a final rejoinder on the debate about the...
The Future of the IMF and World Bank: Panel Discussion
Stanley Fischer, Allan H. Meltzer, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Nicholas Stern
Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen
Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, F. Halsey Rogers
Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty...
Value-added tax options for India
Robin Burgess, Stephen Howes, Nicholas Stern
value-added tax, indirect taxation, fiscal federalism, India,
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish Bhagwati, Angus Deaton, Nicholas Stern
With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global...
The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries
This study approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can structure...
The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries
This study approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can structure...