ex-ante preparedness is needed to manage the risks. The paper discusses sovereign experience with disaster insurance as a … key instrument to mitigate the risks; proposes ways to judge the adequacy of insurance; and considers ways to enhance its … use by vulnerable countries. The paper especially aims to inform policy decisions on disaster insurance. Through …

invest prudently and so reduce bank risk taking. This systemic insurance effect will be relatively more important when …

of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …

new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …

may contribute to rising poverty during periods of high inflation …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … and poverty …

This paper discusses the evolution of the household debt in Australia and finds that while higher-income and higher … depending on the level of household debt. The results corroborate other work that households' response to monetary policy shocks …