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recent innovations on disaster risk financing and insurance developed by the private markets as well as the international … applications in sovereign disaster risk financing for developing countries. Section three examines how innovations coming out of … considers how innovation is taking seed in creative disaster micro insurance programs in low- and middle-income countries …
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The objective of this feasibility study is to identify disaster risk finance and insurance (DRFI) solutions for up to 1 ….9 million family farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This study is motivated by an emerging consensus on the need …
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This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model with a module that models the endogenous risk of...
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for appraising sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance instruments and strategy, and puts forward a model and a … process for improving decision making on the linked disaster risk management strategy and sovereign disaster risk financing … disaster risk financing decision making and describes the ex ante and ex post financing instruments available for responding to …
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The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …
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Under the influence of climate-related extremes, the world is exposed to more and more catastrophe risks. Regulation by insurance may help realize the goal of mitigating catastrophe risk and the following losses. I explore five regulatory tools — risk-based pricing, contract design, loss...
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The paper analyzes the scope for the private market for pandemic insurance and discusses the potential role of the financial market and the government. Building on a premise that pandemics are classified as catastrophic risks by the insurance industry, we start by providing a framework that...
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