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Sub-Saharan Africa : Building Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters
Pondi, Eric M.; Choi, Seung Mo; Mitra, Pritha - 2022
that could substantially improve disaster-resilience. Results show that (i) climaterelated disasters have a significant … negative impact on medium-term growth, especially for sub-Saharan Africa; and (ii) a disaster’s intensity matters much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295006
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Natural Disasters : Mitigating Impact, Managing Risks
Laframboise, N. - 2012
experience suggests there are ways to strengthen policy frameworks to increase resilience to natural disaster shocks, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098564
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Climate Disaster Risks - Empirics and a Multi-Phase Dynamic Model
Mittnik, Stefan - 2019
effects on the macroeconomy. Research on disaster risks has also actively been pursued in the macroeconomic models of climate … change. Our paper uses insights from the former work to study disaster risks in the macroeconomics of climate change and to … spell out policy needs. Empirically the link between carbon dioxide emission and the frequency of climate related disaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865122
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A Possible Approach to Fiscal Rules in Small Islands - Incorporating Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Nakatani, Ryota - 2019
targets with expected disaster shocks. This paper contributes to the literature and policy dialogue by theoretically analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860997
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Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific
Cabezon, Ezequiel R. - 2015
drops by 0.7 percentage point in the year of the disaster. We also find that, during 1980-2014, trend growth was 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019987
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The Macroeconomic Returns of Investment in Resilience to Natural Disasters Under Climate Change : A DSGE Approach
Corugedo, Emilio Fernández; Gonzalez Gomez, Andres; … - 2023
This paper presents a Markov switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model designed to evaluate the macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows the existing literature in assuming that NDs destroy a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014353544
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Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Fragile States : Evidence from Panel Estimations
Maino, Rodolfo; Emrullahu, Drilona - 2022
Fragile states in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face challenges to respond to the effects of climate shocks and rising temperatures. Fragility is linked to structural weaknesses, government failure, and lack of institutional basic functions. Against this setup, climate change could add to risks. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292681
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The Macroeconomic Costs of Conflict
Novta, Natalija - 2020
Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828235
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Macroeconomic and Welfare Costs of U.S. Fiscal Imbalances
Gruss, Bertrand - 2012
In this paper we use a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to assess the macroeconomic and welfare consequences in the United States of alternative fiscal policies over the medium-term. We find that failing to address the fiscal imbalances associated with current federal fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110101
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Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality
Aslan, Goksu - 2017
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942334