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Fiscal Policy's Role in Economic Resilience to Climate Shocks (English)

21 Nov 2024

The impacts of climate change on developing economies are becoming increasingly severe, creating challenges for risk management and requiring enhanced levels of resilience. This paper explores how to mitigate the effects of such climate shocks on developing economies, placing a particular focus on the role fiscal policy in creating and strengthening an economy's resilience. Using data on natural disasters, the analysis shows that economies with constrained fiscal space experience more pronounced negative effects. In an application to a small open economy, the paper tests the presence of the non-linearity of short- and long-run disaster impacts in the World Bank's macroeconomic and fiscal model and illustrates the importance of fiscal policy in mitigating shocks.
public finance fiscal policy world macroeconomic and structural policies public sector management fiscal aspects of climate change

Authors

Rezai,Armon, Ruch,Franz Ulrich, Choudhary,Rishabh, Francois,John Nana Darko

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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10982
Disclosure Date
2024/11/21
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Fiscal Policy's Role in Economic Resilience to Climate Shocks
Pages
41
Published in
United States of America
Series Name
Policy Research working paper; PROSPERITY;
Unit Owning
Prosperity-Econ Pol-Mac/Fis-Tax (EMFTX)
Version Type
Final
Volume No
1

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