ReGDP™: Regenerative GDP
This tool illustrates how recognizing natural capital on a sovereign’s balance sheet and monetizing its ecosystem revenues can materially alter a country's fiscal and debt sustainability outlook.
Maldives: Recognizing coral-related economic activity and its implications for sovereign debt sustainability. All monetary values shown below are in USD.
Regenerative GDP (ReGDP™) is a national income aggregate that extends conventional GDP by incorporating verified and market- or policy-based revenues derived from ecosystem services, thereby recognizing living nature as a productive economic asset that generates measurable income flows.
Slider controls the share of coral-related economic activity recognized above the 10% baseline.
Slider controls how much of the recognized additional revenue is used to pay down sovereign debt.
The red curve reflects the baseline debt sustainability analysis (DSA), which already includes the 10% baseline treatment. The green curve reflects the augmented debt sustainability analysis (A-DSA), calculated from the debt dynamics formula using the selected slider values.
Selected year reflects additional coral-related revenue recognized above the 10% baseline.
