Report
Debt-for-Climate Swaps: Analysis, Design, and Implementation
This paper compares debt-for-climate swaps to alternative fiscal support instruments.
- Publishing date
- 11 August 2022
- Publication name
- IMF Working Papers
- Publication date
- 12 August 2022
- Theme
- Green economy
- Keyword
- climate change fiscal policy public debt
- Language
- English
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