Abdulrasheed Isah
@abdulrasheed.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ETH Zurich & Africa Fellow at The World Bank interested in climate finance, energy policy, and economics.
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At the height of the global energy crisis in 2022 that threw people around the world into energy poverty, quarterly net profits in stock market-listed oil and gas companies were at a record globally.
From our latest paper: scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...
From our latest paper: scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...
December 17, 2024 at 1:02 AM
At the height of the global energy crisis in 2022 that threw people around the world into energy poverty, quarterly net profits in stock market-listed oil and gas companies were at a record globally.
From our latest paper: scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...
From our latest paper: scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...
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A key problem of current macroeconomic-climate (IAM) modeling: even the worst climate impacts only shave off a cream layer from GDP: the world in 2100 is 4.4 times richer even with +3°C warming.
Nice to see the NGFS handbook acknowledge & discuss this in box 2 (source: www.ngfs.net/en/climate-m...)
Nice to see the NGFS handbook acknowledge & discuss this in box 2 (source: www.ngfs.net/en/climate-m...)
November 22, 2024 at 11:37 PM
A key problem of current macroeconomic-climate (IAM) modeling: even the worst climate impacts only shave off a cream layer from GDP: the world in 2100 is 4.4 times richer even with +3°C warming.
Nice to see the NGFS handbook acknowledge & discuss this in box 2 (source: www.ngfs.net/en/climate-m...)
Nice to see the NGFS handbook acknowledge & discuss this in box 2 (source: www.ngfs.net/en/climate-m...)
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When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket: @KelloggSchool @KelloggInsight covers our work on lotteries as an incentive to open a bank account and save (w/ @paul_gertler @aislingscott @SeiraEnrique)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...
#RCT #FinancialInclusion #Mexico #econsky
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...
#RCT #FinancialInclusion #Mexico #econsky
When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket
Prize-linked savings accounts can be more enticing to customers than interest rates—and banks like them, too.
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
November 6, 2023 at 2:37 PM
When Your Savings Account Is Also a Lottery Ticket: @KelloggSchool @KelloggInsight covers our work on lotteries as an incentive to open a bank account and save (w/ @paul_gertler @aislingscott @SeiraEnrique)
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...
#RCT #FinancialInclusion #Mexico #econsky
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...
#RCT #FinancialInclusion #Mexico #econsky
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"We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."
says the article that I found gives an accessible interpretation of the various graphs with extremes that are circulating. #greensky #energysky
says the article that I found gives an accessible interpretation of the various graphs with extremes that are circulating. #greensky #energysky
November 6, 2023 at 1:36 AM
"We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."
says the article that I found gives an accessible interpretation of the various graphs with extremes that are circulating. #greensky #energysky
says the article that I found gives an accessible interpretation of the various graphs with extremes that are circulating. #greensky #energysky
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My column this week for the @financialtimes.com is about the different ways we have of measuring r*.
It's a bit mean of me to say that none of them are good - it's a really *really* hard thing to measure...
www.ft.com/content/3c20...
It's a bit mean of me to say that none of them are good - it's a really *really* hard thing to measure...
www.ft.com/content/3c20...
Why people can’t agree on where interest rates are going
Methods of estimating so-called R-star are in the spotlight — unfortunately, none are good
www.ft.com
November 2, 2023 at 12:22 PM
My column this week for the @financialtimes.com is about the different ways we have of measuring r*.
It's a bit mean of me to say that none of them are good - it's a really *really* hard thing to measure...
www.ft.com/content/3c20...
It's a bit mean of me to say that none of them are good - it's a really *really* hard thing to measure...
www.ft.com/content/3c20...