South Africa has implemented a risk assessment and management framework, supported by the World Bank Treasury. The team … methodologies explored by South Africa to assess the credit risk from guarantees extended to Eskom. To manage and closely monitor … this risk, a dedicated Credit Risk directorate in the Asset and Liability Management division at the National Treasury of …

The ability to manage financial risk is especially important for people earning their living through agriculture. Many … inclusion-access to and use of formal financial services. This paper explores the topic of financial risk management in … risk and use financial services. The paper summarizes new data based on a nationally representative survey of about 15 …

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its … reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in the Philippines …