Vulnerability Monitor No. 1: Global Vulnerability to Trade Shocks

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English
Year Of Publication: 2010
CDP background paper series

The CDP Background Papers are preliminary documents aimed at stimulating discussion and critical comment on the broad range of economic, social and environmental issues associated with the issues dealt with by the Committee for Development Policy.

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Keywords / Category: LDC Graduation
Language: English
Vulnerability Monitor No. 4: The global financial crisis has wiped out progress in reducing open unemployment

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English
Vulnerability Monitor No. 2: Global Vulnerability to Food and Energy Price Shocks

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

Area of work: Evidence-based policy
Language: English