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Building resilience to natural disasters : an application to small developing states

Marto, Ricardo; Papageorgiou, Chris; Kljuev, Vladimir … - 2017

sustainable following Cyclone Pam. Helping the government build resilience on the other hand, reduces the risk of debt distress …

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Sub-Saharan Africa : building resilience to climate-related disasters

Pondi, Eric M.; Seung Mo Choi; Mitra, Pritha - 2022

that could substantially improve disaster-resilience. Results show that (i) climaterelated disasters have a significant … outcomes are critical for raising resilience to floods and storms. Better access to finance, telecommunications, and use of …

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Gone with the wind : estimating hurricane and climate change costs in the Caribbean

Acevedo, Sebastian - 2016

This paper studies the economic costs of hurricanes in the Caribbean by constructing a novel dataset that combines a detailed record of tropical cyclones' characteristics with reported damages. I estimate the relation between hurricane wind speeds and damages in the Caribbean; finding that the...

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A crude shock : explaining the impact of the 2014-16 oil price decline across exporters

Grigoli, Francesco; Herman, Alexander; Swiston, Andrew - 2017

The decline in oil prices in 2014-16 was one of the sharpest in history, and put to test the resilience of oil …

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Exiting from fragility in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of fiscal policies and fiscal institutions

Deléchat, Corinne; Fuli, Ejona; Mulaj, Dafina; … - 2015

This paper studies the role of fiscal policies and institutions in building resilience in sub-Saharan African countries … drivers of fragility and resilience are closely intertwined, we use GMM estimation as well as a probabilistic framework to … significantly and fairly robustly associated with building resilience. Similar conclusions arise from a study of the progression of …

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Tests of German Resilience

Bornhorst, Fabian - 2012

From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany’s formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and helped emerge from stagnation. Volatile external demand,...

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Perfect storm : climate change and tourism

Cevik, Serhan; Ghazanchyan, Manuk - 2020

While the world's attention is on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a greater existential threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive sector like tourism. Using a novel multidimensional index, this study investigates the long-term...

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Feeling the heat : climate shocks and credit ratings

Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2020

regards to climate change resilience, we find that countries with greater climate change resilience benefit from higher …

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Initial output losses from the Covid-19 pandemic : robust determinants

Furceri, Davide; Ganslmeier, Michael; Ostry, Jonathan David - 2021

fractionalization and more democratic regimes. With respect to the first factor, lower resilience of poorer countries reflects the …

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This changes everything : climate shocks and sovereign bonds

Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2020

therefore investigates the impact of climate change vulnerability and resilience on sovereign bond yields and spreads in 98 … advanced and developing countries over the period 1995-2017. We find that the vulnerability and resilience to climate change …

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