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Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
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Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for … institutions operating in emerging markets incorporate modern risk management techniques for market, credit, operational and legal …
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risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …
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This paper studies the allocation of total disaster risk reduction public spending among regions in Peru. The main …
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discusses ex ante and ex post issues affecting disaster risk management. It also assesses how both types of measures can be … for risk transfer, particularly at the higher layers of risk, are discussed in detail. The proposed risk management … framework utilizes financial instruments to enable the government to transfer risk as potential losses begin to exceed its …
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travelers and trade, a significant number of leading customs administrations has adopted risk management as the guiding … principle for border management. Systematically implementing risk management at strategic, operational, and tactical levels …
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This technical notes summarizes the results of the application and update of the IDB's Indicators of Disaster Risk and … Risk Management for borrowing member countries. The four indicators -Disaster Deficit Index (DDI), the Local Disaster Index … (LDI), the Prevalent Vulnerability Index (PVI), and the Risk Management Index (RMI)- measure a country's economic capacity …
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This study follows an analytical risk management process that begins by identifying the major hazards to which the … countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are exposed. It then outlines the risk exposures related to these hazards …, evaluates opportunities for risk transfer and presents examples of financing options in various countries. The document forms …
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En el marco de la III Fase del Diálogo Regional de Política sobre Riesgo de Desastres Naturales, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) encargó a la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (Cooperación Técnica Alemana, GTZ) la elaboración de un estudio sobre "Manejo...
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