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 …

paper reviews the micro-level evidence of disaster impacts on the livelihoods of the poorest households. The evidence …

The welfare impact of a natural disaster depends on its effect on consumption, not only on the direct asset losses and … human losses that are usually estimated and reported after disasters. This paper proposes a framework to assess disaster … after a disaster destroys part of the capital stock are better estimated by using the average?not the marginal …

. Although the potential utility of mangroves in disaster risk reduction is increasingly recognized by coastal managers …