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“A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality” (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fine, B. “A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality”. London

The purpose of this note is to offer some original technical results in the theoretical measurement of inequality. Whilst most practitioners are content to work with one or other measure, with Gini for example to the fore, and discuss the empirical r... Read More about “A Note on the Relationship between Additive Separability and Decomposability in Measuring Income Inequality”.

Enabling access to the Green Climate Fund: Sharing country lessons from South Asia (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tanner, T., Bisht, H., Quevedo, A., Malik, M., & Nadiruzzaman, M. Enabling access to the Green Climate Fund: Sharing country lessons from South Asia. New Delhi

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a financing mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2011, the GCF aims to make a significant and ambitious contribution towards internationally agreed goals to... Read More about Enabling access to the Green Climate Fund: Sharing country lessons from South Asia.

Scaling up early action: Lessons, challenges and future potential in Bangladesh (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tanner, T., Gray, B., Guigma, K., Iqbal, J., Levine, S., MacLeod, D., Nahar, K., Rejve, K., & Cabot Venton, C. Scaling up early action: Lessons, challenges and future potential in Bangladesh. London

‘Forecast-based early action’ (FbA) is emerging among humanitarian and disaster risk management practitioners as an approach that can reduce the impact of shocks on vulnerable people and their livelihoods, improve the effectiveness of emergency prepa... Read More about Scaling up early action: Lessons, challenges and future potential in Bangladesh.

Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Khan, M., Andreoni, A., & Roy, P. Illicit Financial Flows: theory and measurement challenges. London

This Working Paper, by the Executive and Research Directors of SOAS-ACE, examines the problem of defining and measuring illicit financial flows, and the implications of this for policy-making.

The Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Firms’ Cost of Capital and Access to Finance (2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kling, G., Volz, U., Murinde, V., & Ayas, S. The Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Firms’ Cost of Capital and Access to Finance. London

This paper investigates the effect of climate-related risk on firms’ cost of capital and access to finance. Building on recent findings that climate vulnerability significantly increases sovereign cost of debt, we posit a ‘pass-through effect’ whereb... Read More about The Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Firms’ Cost of Capital and Access to Finance.