To what degree can vulnerability to extreme weather events be mitigated by access to a rural livelihoods program …

need to take an expansive view of the concept. It also illustrates using actual bank case studies from the United States … largely constrained, more can be done on the micro-prudential side to promote clearer market signals of bank riskiness and to …

disaster risk management framework of the Philippines, taking the lead coordinating role in disaster response activities …. Consequently, social protection programs are on the frontlines of disaster response in the Philippines. This paper focuses …This paper evaluates how the Philippines utilize social protection systems and programs to help households better …

reconstruction process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in the Philippines …Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … main measure of disaster severity. Using a new, agent-based model that represents explicitly the recovery and …

Climate change will exacerbate the challenges associated with environmental conditions, especially weather variability … development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only …

burden of heat stress experienced by much of the world?s population in the coming decades. What will the distributional …

Global economic losses from natural disasters continue to increase. Yet, investments in disaster risk management are … multitude of benefits from disaster risk management investments are not traditionally accounted for in cost-benefit analyses …. This paper contributes to this discussion by highlighting the multiple benefits from disaster risk management investments …

This paper reassesses what works in banking regulation based on the new World Bank survey (Survey IV) of bank … regulation and supervision around world. The paper briefly presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in … in bank regulations and banking system performance. The data suggest that many countries made capital regulations more …