growth driver, would be affected owing to widespread damages to the production systems in and around the earthquake area. …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to … dealing with disaster risk. Key sources of market failure include the difficulty of risk spreading and, perhaps even more …

disaster-prone areas of the world, it has one of the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability …

vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural …

The January 2010 earthquake represented a major setback for Haiti, after several years of improved economic performance …

natural disaster shocks in general tend not to be statistically significant, international assistance to low income countries … increases following geological disaster shocks. Furthermore, the results show that typically, other private capital flows (bank …

experience suggests there are ways to strengthen policy frameworks to increase resilience to natural disaster shocks, including …