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to the structure and wealth of the household and the gender roles of its members. The report identifies how to strengthen … the risk management tools to better weather future crises. First, it identifies areas where the government can strengthen … mechanisms used by households to insure against the risk of income loss due to a macroeconomic crisis or to cope with such loses …
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The report is the result of an inter-institutional collaborative effort between the Government of Pakistan, civil society, and international donors. This report finds that while Pakistan implements a wide array of social protection programs, the effectiveness of these programs could be...
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The current report is a milestone for preparing the Romanian climate change (CC) action plan. A CC action plan should be based on the consolidation and coordination of both mitigation and adaptation measures and options. An important step in the elaboration of such a plan is the selection of...
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has developed an Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) framework that assesses risks in systemic production, markets, and … of risk management measures so that scarce resources can be allocated where they have the most impact. It also helps … collaboration. There is a need to build layered approaches to manage risk that combine risk-mitigating, risk-transfer, and risk …
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This report seeks to further the body of disaster risk management (DRM) knowledge in Santa Catarina by identifying …
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The objective of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating a gender dimension into Agricultural Sector Risk … Assessments (ASRAs). The focus is on the approach because both agricultural risk and gender issues are contextual, thus the … outcomes of a gender-based risk assessment are highly dependent on the social, cultural, geo-graphic, and economic contexts of …
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, contingency funds and lines of credit, and private insurance. The instruments most commonly used to mitigate risk during the … operating period are: contractual arrangements, contingency reserves, cash traps, insurance, and risk compensation devices. …In project finance, risks are allocated to the parties best able to manage them. However, the risk mitigation …
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Half a year ago, Russia's economic prospects looked uncertain. The global economy was losing momentum, the expansion in the euro area was grinding to a halt and commodity prices were beginning to fall. Yet, while output growth is slowing this year in line with weaker growth in Europe and...
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