lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3 …-sensitive sectors (agriculture, energy, etc.). The potential for similar benefits in the developing world is not only proportional to …

microeconomic study of the recovery of the private firms in a developing country following a major natural disaster. Disaster … recovery is found to be slower than commonly assumed, with disaster-affected enterprises lagging behind unaffected comparable … firms more than three years after the disaster. Using data from random cash grants provided by the project, the paper shows …

capital accumulates through increased density of capital at risk in a given area, (i) the probability of disaster occurrence … decreases with income; (ii) capital at risk ? and thus economic losses in case of disaster -- increases faster than economic … development, that risk taking should not be indiscriminately suppressed, and that the world is very likely to experience fewer but …

plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas -- and the resulting increase in disaster losses -- may be … the consequence of a rational and well-informed trade-off between lower disaster losses and higher productivity. With … disasters possibly becoming less frequent but increasingly destructive in the future, average disaster losses may grow faster …

the introduction of disaster funds, that is, ex-ante budgeting allocations for post-disaster reconstruction. So far the … implementation of disaster funds has been limited, in part because it is still unclear whether disaster funds provide a cost … reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …

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

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 …