This report explores how countries can strengthen the resilience of their agricultural sectors to multiple risks. A shifting risk landscape in agriculture – due to increasing weather variability, natural hazards, pests and diseases, and market shocks – will require public and private actors...

This book examines the performance of social assistance policies in four countries with similar per capita incomes: Australia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It confronts their -- very different -- social protection systems and sheds light on issues such as social insurance and social...

"The OECD contributes to the improvement of the financial management of major catastrophes both through the activities of the International Network on the Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes and through the leadership of its High-Level Advisory Board. This publication brings...

The publication "provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. Based on survey responses provided by 29 economies, as well as...

Introduction / Michael Oborne -- Ch. 1. Lessons learned / Reza Lahidji -- Ch. 2. Key issues. 1. Economic recovery from past disasters / Patrick Lenain ; 2. Budgetary impact / Patrick Lenain ; 3. Impact on insurance and financial markets / Sebastian Schich ; 4. An insurance perspective on...