Dramatic events, such as the earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province in 2008 and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005, have brought the financial management of catastrophic risks once again to the forefront of the public policy agenda globally. To...

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects. The financial management of these impacts is a key challenge for individuals and governments in developed and developing countries. G20...

The Financial Indicators dataset in Main Economic Indicators (MEI) contains financial statistics on monetary aggregates, interest rates, exchange rates, government reserve assets and share prices. These indicators aim to capture in quantitative terms this important but heterogeneous and fast...

The financial management of disaster risks, such as floods, earthquakes, cyclones, terrorist attacks, cyberattacks and pandemics, remains a key public policy challenge for governments around the world, particularly those faced with significant exposures to such risks and/or limited capacity to...

This report applies the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and the guidance in the OECD Recommendation on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies to the specific case of earthquakes. It provides an overview of the approaches that economies facing various levels of...