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Self-Insurance Against Natural Disasters : The Use of Pension Funds in Pacific Island Countries.
Pacific island countries are exposed to significant risks from natural disasters. As a disaster relief measure, Fiji allowed pre-retirement pension withdrawls in the wake of Cyclone Winston in 2016. Motivated by this policy action, we provide a normative analysis of the use of early pension withdraw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2018.
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| Colección: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
no. 18/155. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pacific island countries are exposed to significant risks from natural disasters. As a disaster relief measure, Fiji allowed pre-retirement pension withdrawls in the wake of Cyclone Winston in 2016. Motivated by this policy action, we provide a normative analysis of the use of early pension withdrawals after disasters, by setting up a life-cycle saving model 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 implications of early pension withdrawals. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (23 pages) |
| ISBN: | 148436791X 9781484367919 1484366832 9781484366837 |