trade facilitation; (ii) trade and disaster recovery and reconstruction; and (iii) other trade policies affecting …

Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster … response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing … have the potential to significantly enhance and boost systems for financial resilience against disaster shocks. Development …

capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare. The paper proposes a tool to help decision makers …

This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance instruments available to … governments for funding disaster losses. The framework can be used by governments to help choose between different financial … disaster losses, taking into account the risk of disasters, economic conditions, and political constraints. The paper discusses …

More than 1 billion people have lifted themselves out of poverty in the past 15 years, but climate and disaster risks …

of safety nets is advocated both ex ante, to prevent and mitigate the impact of natural disaster and ex post, to cope …

risk management. In 2011 the world witnessed record losses from disasters caused by natural hazards with estimated costs of …

Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards affecting people around the world. This study provides a global … 1.47 billion people, or 19 percent of the world population, are directly exposed to substantial risks during 1-in-100 …