experience suggests there are ways to strengthen policy frameworks to increase resilience to natural disaster shocks, including …

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 …

post-disaster relief and recovery efforts. This paper estimates the effects of severe natural disasters on fiscal revenues … budgetary savings needed to build appropriate fiscal buffers. Fiscal buffers provide self-insurance against natural disaster …

Pacific island countries are exposed to significant risks from natural disasters. As a disaster relief measure, Fiji … with myopic households facing large natural disaster shocks. The model demonstrates the key trade-off between building up … sufficient retirement savings and ensuring the access to savings against natural disaster shocks, and sheds light on welfare …

for disaster shocks for the Pacific islands. Better incorporating the economic impact of natural disasters in the medium …

reference to two Pacific island countries, Fiji and Samoa. The analysis shows that the commonly used CPI-based real effective …