Green stimulus after the 2008 crisis, learning from successes and failures (excerpt)
2020-07-02
The Covid-19 epidemic led to an unprecedented macroeconomic and energy shock. Given the urgent need for proactive policies both to help the economy recovery and to accelerate clean energy transitions, several countries are interested in combining these policies to create green stimulus programmes. In this context, the experience of the green stimulus programmes implemented in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis provide useful lessons for policy design.
