This is a background paper to the 2014 World Development Report. Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This … value chains. First, it examines the risk-sharing mechanisms that firms provide from the national and global perspectives …

Which cities have the highest risk of human and economic losses due to natural hazards? And how will urban exposure to … major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the … components of this risk measure are urban hazard characteristics, exposure, and vulnerability. For earthquakes, cyclones, floods …