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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...
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The Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2015
The Fund has a role to play in helping its members address those challenges of climate change for which fiscal and … submitted by over 160 countries ahead of the pivotal Climate Conference in Paris in December represent an important step by the … also help mobilize private finance for mitigation activities and spur the innovation needed to address climate challenges …
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The Fiscal Implications of Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal implications of climate change, and the potential role of the Fund in addressing them. It … and degree-all Fund members. -- Climate change is a global externality problem, calling for some degree of international … fiscal cooperation -- ... and has features-an intertemporal mismatch between the (early) costs of action to address climate …
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System of environmental-economic accounting 2012 : experimental ecosystem accounting
European Commission / Statistical Office of the …; … - 2014
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Bank …
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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1984
increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406218
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State-Contingent Debt Instruments for Sovereigns
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Background. The case for sovereign state-contingent debt instruments (SCDIs) as a countercyclical and risk-sharing tool has been around for some time and remains appealing; but take-up has been limited. Earlier staff work had advocated the use of growth-indexed bonds in emerging markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408735
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System of National Accounts 2008
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank reflects the changes and improvements that have been …
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The Restructuring of Sovereign Debt : Assessing the Benefits, Risks, and Feasibility of Aggregating Claims
International Monetary Fund - 2003
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Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability : Supplementary Information
International Monetary Fund - 2010
Reform package. Comprehensive reform of Fund governance-encompassing quotas, ministerial engagement and oversight, the size and composition of the Executive Board, voting rules, management selection, and staff diversity-is essential to enhancing the Fund's long-term legitimacy and effectiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410320
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Criteria for Broadening the SDR Currency Basket
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The paper explores the pros and cons of maintaining the current 'freely usable currency' criterion, and clarifies indicators for assessing it. The freely usable concept and its two key elements-currencies should be "widely used" and "widely traded"-are set out in the Articles and serve important...
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