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 …

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 …

are the price of investment goods, distance to major world cities, and political rights. This suggests that growth … different prior assumptions on expected model size. "--World Bank web site …