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Use of Catastrophe Risk Models in Assessing Sovereign Food Security for Risk Transfer

Sharma, Mohan - 2017

This paper discusses how catastrophe crop risk models can be used to assess food security needs at the sovereign level for the purpose of risk transfer. The rationale for a system to evaluate food security needs at the national level is discussed. The role of technology and remote sensing data...

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Proving Incentives for Long-Term Investment by Pension Funds : The Use of Outcome-Based Benchmarks

Stewart, Fiona - 2017

A fundamental goal of any pension system is to ensure that members receive an adequate income when they retire. Although traditional defined benefit pension plans set out how pension income will be determined in advance and then strive to deliver this, the growing number of defined contribution...

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Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to...

Porter, Catherine - 2017

This paper analyzes the potential to combine catastrophe risk modelling (CAT risk modeling) with economic analysis of vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to determine the potential for applying a derived...

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Weather Index Insurance and Shock Coping : Evidence from Mexico's Cadena Program

de Janvry, Alain - 2017

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a...

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Extreme Weather and Poverty Risk : Evidence from Multiple Shocks in Mozambique

Baez, Javier Eduardo - 2018

This paper investigates the effects of multiple weather shocks on household welfare in Mozambique, as well as some of the coping responses and price mechanisms at play. The analysis employs a triple-difference strategy that exploits variation in the shocks across space, time, and cropping...

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Catastrophic Medical Expenditures : Reflections on Three Issues

Wagstaff, Adam - 2018

There is a large empirical literature analyzing' catastrophic' medical expenses. The' basic' approach defines expenses as catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of total consumption or income; the approach, in effect, tells us whether expenses cause a large percentage reduction in...

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Mangroves for Coastal Protection : Evidence from Hurricanes in Central America

del Valle, Alejandro - 2019

This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove...

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Are Losses from Natural Disasters More than Just Asset Losses? The Role of Capital Aggregation, Sector Interactions, and Investment Behaviors

Hallegatte, S. - 2018

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 …

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Mangroves as Protection from Storm Surges in Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

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

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Resilience and Critical Power System Infrastructure : Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters and Future Research Needs

Schweikert, Amy Elizabeth - 2019

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages to critical infrastructure is essential...

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