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  "title": "Fiji: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, June 20, 2025",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper explores impact of climate change and sea level rise in Fiji. With growing climate challenges ahead, the explicit consideration of costs and benefits of alternative adaptations in coastal management, as well as in all other sectors, can help contain fiscal costs, maximize",
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      "heading": "Key findings on climate change and sea level rise",
      "content": "- The paper explores the impact of climate change and sea level rise in Fiji.\n- Growing climate challenges increase the need for explicit consideration of costs and benefits of alternative adaptations in coastal management and other sectors.\n- Careful allocation of government resources across all possible uses, including adaptation to climate change, is essential given competing needs and distributional effects.\n- Prioritizing adaptation policies with positive externalities can improve outcomes by addressing market imperfections and policies that hinder efficient private adaptation.\n- Ensuring a just transition is emphasized as part of adaptation strategy."
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      "heading": "Role of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and distributional analysis",
      "content": "- Despite limitations, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can help decision makers consistently collect, aggregate, and compare information on public adaptation projects.\n- CBA, when complemented by analysis and correction of distributional impacts, can help decision makers maximize overall social welfare and avoid wasting scarce resources.\n- Explicit consideration of costs and benefits can help contain fiscal costs and maximize the impact of international finance."
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      "content": "- Prioritize adaptation policies that generate positive externalities.\n- Remove market imperfections and policies that hinder efficient private adaptation.\n- Implement measures to ensure a just transition for affected populations.\n- Use CBA as a systematic tool for project evaluation, coupled with targeted distributional corrections to protect equity and welfare.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Fiji: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/139; May 30, 2025\n  - Fiji: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/139; May 30, 2025 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Fiji: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/139; May 30, 2025 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: June 20, 2025",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229013963.002",
    "The paper explores the impact of climate change and sea level rise in Fiji.",
    "Growing climate challenges increase the need for explicit consideration of costs and benefits of alternative adaptations in coastal management and other sectors.",
    "Careful allocation of government resources across all possible uses, including adaptation to climate change, is essential given competing needs and distributional effects.",
    "Prioritizing adaptation policies with positive externalities can improve outcomes by addressing market imperfections and policies that hinder efficient private adaptation.",
    "Ensuring a just transition is emphasized as part of adaptation strategy.",
    "Despite limitations, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can help decision makers consistently collect, aggregate, and compare information on public adaptation projects.",
    "CBA, when complemented by analysis and correction of distributional impacts, can help decision makers maximize overall social welfare and avoid wasting scarce resources.",
    "Explicit consideration of costs and benefits can help contain fiscal costs and maximize the impact of international finance.",
    "Prioritize adaptation policies that generate positive externalities.",
    "Remove market imperfections and policies that hinder efficient private adaptation.",
    "Implement measures to ensure a just transition for affected populations.",
    "Use CBA as a systematic tool for project evaluation, coupled with targeted distributional corrections to protect equity and welfare.",
    "**Fiji: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/139; May 30, 2025**"
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