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experience suggests there are ways to strengthen policy frameworks to increase resilience to natural disaster shocks, including …
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fiscal policy efforts such as ad hoc fiscal rebalancing and reprioritization. The findings help better customize disaster …
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This paper seeks to determine the effects that natural disasters have on per capita GDP and on the debt to GDP ratio in the Caribbean. Two types of natural disasters are studied –storms and floods– given their prevalence in the region, while considering the effects of both moderate and...
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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 …
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?ects on the macroecon-omy. 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 re-lated disaster …
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targets with expected disaster shocks. This paper contributes to the literature and policy dialogue by theoretically analyzing …
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Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through which natural disaster shocks … affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone countries. We solve the model using Taylor projection, a solution … find large and persistent effects of weather shocks that significantly impact the income convergence path of disaster …
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, reduces world real GDP per capita by more than 7 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby …
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Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....
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