Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2015/125
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ezequiel Cabezon , Leni Hunter , Patrizia Tumbarello , Kazuaki Washimi , and Yiqun Wu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 June 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513525792.001
ISBN: 9781513525792
Keywords: natural disasters, climate change, panel VAR, disaster risk management, disasters, disaster, natural disaster, damage, Environment and Growth, International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions,
Natural disasters and climate change are interrelated macro-critical issues affecting all Pacific small states to varying degrees. In addition to their devastating human costs, these events damage growth prospects...