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This article reviews a rapidly growing literature on how climatic risks and events affect public finances around the world. This literature includes empirical evaluations of how past climatic events have affected fiscal outcomes, empirical and model-based assessments of how climatic risks affect...
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finance. As such, it leads to a suite of policy options for countries in the region. …
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countercyclical macroeconomic policies to build resilience against devastating natural hazards …
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The climate and biodiversity emergencies require structural economic shifts that will necessitate strategic coordination between macroeconomic policy authorities. The Covid-19 episode saw the implementation of monetary-fiscal policy coordination not seen since the 1970s to avert catastrophic...
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In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the economic impact of the crisis. The unusually large scale of the packages was accompanied by widespread calls for “greening” them to meet the dual goals of economic recovery...
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emissions. Fiscal policies at the national, sectoral, and international level could play a critical role in implementing these … objectives, along with investment, regulatory, and technology policies. Fiscal instruments are cost-effective, can enhance … mitigation, while levies/feebates offer a practical approach for reducing maritime and aviation emissions …
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This paper first reviews the conceptual case for, and appropriate design of, fiscal policies to address major … benefits from reform, are then discussed. A theme of the paper is the critical role of finance ministries in administering tax …
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reallocation implications of policies to control climate change and their efficient implementation. The scope for further work …
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Fiscal policy choices have a particularly significant impact on economic performance in oil-exporting countries, owing to the importance of the oil sector in the economy and the fact that in most countries oil revenues accrue to the government. At the same time, fiscal policy in oil-centred...
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This paper produces a normative evaluation of fiscal rules for a resource-rich economy. Ad hoc fiscal rules might imply substantial welfare costs; the goal is to analyze the magnitude of these costs by quantitatively evaluating the relative welfare sub-optimality of these rules. I posit a closed...
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