Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters in the Pacific Islands

The high level dialogue will discuss how countries could enhance macroeconomic resilience to natural disasters and presents latest IMF analysis. The Pacific island countries are among the most susceptible to natural disasters in the world. Enhancing resilience to these events demands a multi-pillar strategy at the national, regional, and multilateral levels. It also requires enhancing countries’ risk-management capacity.

The workshop organized with the funding supporting of the Australian Government will focus on strengthening the fiscal frameworks also leveraging the policy messages of the recent IMF Board paper on small states and accompanying background analysis. It will be highly interactive, including practicing with the use of case studies.