plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas -- and the resulting increase in disaster losses -- may be … the consequence of a rational and well-informed trade-off between lower disaster losses and higher productivity. With … disasters possibly becoming less frequent but increasingly destructive in the future, average disaster losses may grow faster …

experiencing a resource gap (net disaster losses exceed all available financing sources) for events that occur with a probability … country risk aversion implying that disaster risks faced by some governments cannot be absorbed without major difficulty. Risk … pre-disaster risk financing instruments themselves, and thus require technical and financial assistance from the donor …

microeconomic study of the recovery of the private firms in a developing country following a major natural disaster. Disaster … recovery is found to be slower than commonly assumed, with disaster-affected enterprises lagging behind unaffected comparable … firms more than three years after the disaster. Using data from random cash grants provided by the project, the paper shows …

-effective financing for the different phases that follow a disaster. The paper explains why governments are usually better served by … retaining most of their natural disaster risk while using risk transfer mechanisms to manage the excess volatility of their … budgets or access immediate liquidity after a disaster. Finally, it discusses innovative approaches to disaster risk financing …

illustrated to create natural disaster and hazard maps from first hand, geo-referenced meteorological data. In a second step, the … the natural disaster measures derived in the first phase, to estimate the welfare effects associated with natural … differentiation in the welfare effects across space and disaster appears partly linked to the functioning of the disaster relief …

disaster." However these assessments are based on different methodologies and approaches, and they often reach different … results. Besides methodological differences, these discrepancies are due to the multi-dimensionality in disaster impacts and … disaster, and emphasizes the most important mechanisms that explain and determine this cost. It does so by first explaining why …

Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of …